Has anybody looked at what icons are actually used regularly on the Slacks they are on? Slack allows custom emoticons and the LW Slack has some for agreement and such. Unfortunately, I am no longer on the two LW Slack that I know of but somebody else might look up which are used frequently. I will look at our company Slack though. Would be nice if there were an add-on out there that makes it easy to get an emoticon usage report. Anybody heard of such a thing?
I looked at two major channels on our Slack. The general channel and the main developer channel. The former is more social the latter more formal as you can see from the stats (the categories I tracked were the same):
#general:
up-vote (multiple kinds): 60
food: 17
social (graces and teams): 11
smileys: 12
custom (mostly company-specific): 37
insights:
lightbulb: 1
exclamation mark: 1
question mark: 0
trend (up/down): 4
checkmark: 1
other: 24
dev channel:
up-vote (multiple kinds): 62
food: 0
social (graces and teams): 1
smileys: 0
custom (mostly company-specific): 1
insights:
lightbulb: 6
exclamation mark: 1
question mark: 2
trend (up/down): 0
checkmark: 12
other: 15
Based on this sample I would say if custom reactions are not implemented the most valuable reactions are those under ‘insights’:
lightbulb: is used for surprising or insightful information
exclamation mark: is used to warn about something that requires attention
question mark: flags open questions that should be answered
trend (up/down): information about a general positive/negative trend
checkmark: Different from an up-vote; indicates that something was completed and does not need further attention
Has anybody looked at what icons are actually used regularly on the Slacks they are on? Slack allows custom emoticons and the LW Slack has some for agreement and such. Unfortunately, I am no longer on the two LW Slack that I know of but somebody else might look up which are used frequently. I will look at our company Slack though. Would be nice if there were an add-on out there that makes it easy to get an emoticon usage report. Anybody heard of such a thing?
I looked at two major channels on our Slack. The general channel and the main developer channel. The former is more social the latter more formal as you can see from the stats (the categories I tracked were the same):
#general:
up-vote (multiple kinds): 60
food: 17
social (graces and teams): 11
smileys: 12
custom (mostly company-specific): 37
insights:
lightbulb: 1
exclamation mark: 1
question mark: 0
trend (up/down): 4
checkmark: 1
other: 24
dev channel:
up-vote (multiple kinds): 62
food: 0
social (graces and teams): 1
smileys: 0
custom (mostly company-specific): 1
insights:
lightbulb: 6
exclamation mark: 1
question mark: 2
trend (up/down): 0
checkmark: 12
other: 15
Based on this sample I would say if custom reactions are not implemented the most valuable reactions are those under ‘insights’:
lightbulb: is used for surprising or insightful information
exclamation mark: is used to warn about something that requires attention
question mark: flags open questions that should be answered
trend (up/down): information about a general positive/negative trend
checkmark: Different from an up-vote; indicates that something was completed and does not need further attention
Stack overflow has something like a checkmark as a specific feature for questions, to
Indicate the answer chosen by the asker.