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I used to<\/span> work for a company that had a few thousand custom emoji in Slack, which I admit got annoying\u2014certain managers overused them to the point where I rarely had any idea what they were trying to say. Even so, I miss some of those emoji\u2014it\u2019s like I\u2019ve left a part of my vocabulary behind.<\/p>\n I know this sounds odd. I\u2019m a writer, and words should be enough, but sometimes a linked tweet is so terrible that only an animated \u201cThis is Fine\u201d or \u201cOh No\u201d emoji can get my disgust across. These modern hieroglyphics express what words cannot, and losing access to them feels weird. Building an entire Slack emoji collection from scratch is time-consuming, though, because you can upload only one emoji at a time. So here\u2019s how to avoid that tedium so you can quickly rebuild a massive emoji collection in your Slacks.<\/p>\n Download All the Emoji<\/p>\n To get started you\u2019re going to want to download all the emoji you want to add. Slackmojis is probably the collection you should check out first\u2014it\u2019s the most complete archive I\u2019ve found. You can click any emoji to quickly download it to your browser\u2019s default download folder. If that\u2019s not fast enough, you can use the Chrome and Firefox extension DownThemAll. Just head to any of the category pages on Slackmoji, launch DownThemAll, and set it to download only images. You\u2019ll get every emoji on the page in a couple of seconds.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re mostly interested in adding a massive collection of party parrots\u2014and who wouldn\u2019t be\u2014head to Cult Of The Party Parrot. You can download individual emoji you like; there\u2019s also a zip file with all of them.<\/p>\n The site emoji.gg offers a bunch of emoji packs, which you can download all at once. The quality is probably a little lower, overall, but there\u2019s a staggering amount offered, and you can download a zip file for any collection.<\/p>\n You can find other collections of emoji on Github\u2014 my friend Andrew Hedges compiled his personal set of work emojis, and there are a few other collections if you dig around.<\/p>\n However you collect your emoji, make sure that they\u2019re all in one folder and every file is named what you\u2019d like it to be named in Slack.<\/p>\n Bulk Upload Your New Collection<\/p>\n Now we need to download the Neutral Face Emoji Tools browser extension, which is available only for Chrome (users of other browsers can quickly use this for the upload process before going back to using something better). In Slack, click the name of your server in the top left corner and browse to Administration<\/strong> > Customize<\/strong>. You will see the new Bulk Emoji Uploader<\/strong> at the top of the screen.<\/p>\n Slack via Justin Pot<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n Simply drag your massive emoji collection here and the extension will do all of the work, uploading the emoji and giving them whatever names the files have. Any emoji with a conflicting name won\u2019t upload, greatly reducing the odds of redundant emoji.<\/p>\n I could put down some nonsense here about how emoji are essential to functioning in the post-pandemic world, that they make workers more efficient by improving communication, or some other jargon-laden nonsense I have no basis for. It might even be true, but I don\u2019t care. Custom emoji are fun and that\u2019s reason enough to set them up\u2014I hope your company, community, or group of friends enjoys them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I used to work for a company that had a few thousand custom emoji in Slack, which I admit got annoying\u2014certain managers overused them to the point where I rarely had any idea what they were trying to say. 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