Slack invents emoji favs: A whole new way to say what you think 😍💁👍

Some of us are addicted to favoriting tweets, but Slack had a better idea: what if you could favorite a message with emoji? After users consistently asked for a “like” button in its app, Slack wanted to find a better way to do it. The team “argued over what symbol it would use” to represent a favorite, but then realized everything it needed was already right there in the emoji set. Instead of likes, you can now react to any message with any of the 300+ emoji that are part of the service. It’s ridiculous, ingenious and amazing, all at once. Behold: When someone suggested…

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