Bot emojis don't work well with Discord's dark theme
Dids opened this issue · 5 comments
Expected Behavior
- Emojis used by the bot should be neutral enough to fit both the light and dark theme, even though the dark theme is more widely used than the light one.
Actual Behavior/Symptoms
- Emojis used by the bot only work as intended with the light theme, not with the dark theme.
How to Reproduce Behavior/Symptoms
- Install the bot and see it post messages/emojis in Discord.
Terracord Version
Output/Screenshot(s)
Greetings, @Dids.
I fully agree and wish that Discord offered a '+' and '-' emoji with better visibility in dark mode (it is also the theme I've always used). :heavy_plus_sign: and :heavy_minus_sign: are too dark. The idea to prefix player join/leave messages with this pair of emojis was borrowed from https://github.com/DiscordSRV/DiscordSRV. I was running both DiscordSRV and Terracord for use within the same Discord server at one time. I wanted some uniformity between the #minecraft and #terraria text channels there.
Do you have any suggestions for replacement characters that we could use as a prefix for player join/leave events in Discord?
That's a good question, because the default emoji aren't that great.
The only default ones that could work with both themes (and still somewhat make sense) would likely be the :circle: emojis, eg. :green_circle: for joining and :orange_circle (or even :red_circle) for leaving?
Ideally though, maybe these could be configurable through terracord.xml, so they could be overridden?
I second being able to configure them. With DiscordSRV, I usually use a set of custom emojis designed for the task.
As far as default emojis go, :white_check_mark: and :negative_squared_cross_mark: match and work on both themes.
The latest commit at the time of this writing, f034948, should do what you want. I'll allow a few days for testing prior to resolving this issue (unless you resolve it first). Please let me know if you need anything else.
This solution works absolutely great, thank you! Also added the option to customize these in the Docker container. :)