Mastodon: Shortcodes in display names no longer render to emoji
People have noticed that shortcodes in display names are no longer rendering as emoji on master; see https://dev.glitch.social/users/MightyPork/updates/9587 . I've noticed #4189 or #4202 as recent emoji-related pulls; is this related to those or is something else interfering?
- [x] I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.
- [ ] This bug happens on a tagged release and not on
master(If you're a user, don't worry about this).
joyeusenoelle
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Folks must re-save their profile. Shortcodes will be converted to unicode then. The JS no longer handles shortcodes.
Gargron
on 24 Jul 2017
We could probably have a db:migrate thing that does that automatically?
wxcafe
on 24 Jul 2017
You may know that updates on the display_name column take relatively long because of a search index. It's not a viable migrate. It's also a task in ruby code, meaning each row update would have to go through ruby.
Gargron
on 24 Jul 2017
It's probably reasonable to fix this for local users in a sidekiq task. I think figuring out how to run cleanup/integrity-type background tasks as a migration-like action is useful and comes up often enough that we should put work into fixing this.
nightpool
on 24 Jul 2017
I think this is mostly a non-issue because over time more and more people just update their profile, especially if they see the shortcode instead of the emoji.
Gargron
on 8 Apr 2018
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It's probably reasonable to fix this for local users in a sidekiq task. I think figuring out how to run cleanup/integrity-type background tasks as a migration-like action is useful and comes up often enough that we should put work into fixing this.