Filling the chat box with emotes should not move the emote selection dialog
It's not really a 'bug' but more of a user experience issue.
When I click emotes in the emote selection drawer, the chat box fills with the text representation, and eventually the chat box auto-lengthens to accommodate increasing amounts of text. The emote I was clicking on has now moved enough pixels away such that if I do not move my cursor to adapt, I click on an unintentional emote. It is annoying to then have to delete a long string due to one single click.
Can we please change the behaviour so the chat box is perhaps static and set to a larger height, and the content scrolls always to the bottom?
I wonder how difficult it would be to render the emotes directly in the box as well. If it's text -> img via JS, why not populate the chat box with the actual icons. This would save space too.
In general I find the bits, channel identity, and other drawer/popups over the chat to be really intrusive. I cannot see what's going on in chat while selecting emotes. Maybe the popup could pop out to the left?
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seanmorton85
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A fixed chat box with scrolling content would definitely make selecting multiple emotes much less frustrating, and rendering the icons directly could also improve usability. Similar attention to small workflow improvements is what makes tools like futures trading accountant services uk more efficient to use. https://pearllemonaccountants.com/futures-trading-accountant-services-uk/