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Greetings!
Microsoft Teams recently rolled out the Microsoft Fluent emoji style in Teams. This change altered all emojis and reactions across the platform and made them look incredibly displeasurable and unusual. In a business environment, I would venture to say the updated emojis are unusable due to the fact that they are so silly (for lack of a better word). I have thus far been unable to revert the emojis back to the way they were before this update; however, I would like to do this, as would my team. Is there any way to revert the emojis back to the way they were before this Microsoft Fluent emoji style update?
Thanks for any insight!
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I wonder if these emojis were release by mistake. They look like someone designed them out of spite, or as a weird joke.
"Never attribute to spite or a weird joke, that which can be adequately explained by a complete disregard for your users." - Robert J. Hanlon
As far as I'm concerned, I've totally stopped using those emojis.
I use text ones, putting extra space to prevent auto substitution so
: )
: D
...
They are scaring small children!
I have a visually impaired, legally blind team member that cannot distinguish between the new set of emojis. They state that they all look like orange and purple smudges. I'm very disappointed that Microsoft would allow a change that didn't follow ADA guidelines.
It would be VERY nice to have the option, either at the admin level or the individual level to choose a set of emojis they would like to use.
I am not visually impaired, and still have problem with distinguishing between new emojis - many of them look similar (until you switch focus and concentrate to it).
Really annoying and most of all unuseful.