timestamp is hidden by the avatars on emotes

[richvdh]

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• emote
• /me, me slash command
• status message

[ara4n]

This is because I broke the official emote design in order to make it clearer who emotes are attributed to. @antikewl, we'll need to reconsider how to show emotes - I think we need a big avatar in order to make it easier to see who is emoting about what, given they are just as important and personal as normal messages. But the big avatar overlaps the timestamp and hides it.

[mittalswastik]

What I understand by @ara4n's comment is that we are trying to accomplish adding reactions to messages sent by the user. Questions are as follows:

• Does emote over here refers to emoticons?
• If the above question's answer is yes: where exactly can I embed emoji's? Can't find a toolbar for emoji's and I tried following the conventional UX of typing :) -> to turn into emoji. Nothing happened.

Can you elaborate the issue a little, so I can take this up?

[richvdh]

@mittalswastik: I think you're over-reading this. 'emote' refers to /me messages. Reactions are covered at #1357.

[turt2live]

This is slightly more amusing when you enable 12hr time:

(/develop)

[Angedestenebres]

Hi again,

Sorry @ara4n I didn't find that issue :S
Anyway thanks for your prompt answer.

After checking I find a way to display the exact timestamp on Desktop Client:

For that, we just have to place the cursor near of the user's avatar to get the mouseover :)

[t3chguy]

Is this dealt with in the redesign?
One option would be to set opacity on the avatar on hover
like

[turt2live]

More irritatingly, when the emote is in a reply the timestamp is on top of the avatar where normally it is underneath:

[nadonomy]

Updating with a screenshot of what Riot (/develop) looks like today:

We could consider moving the timestamp next to the name, and displaying the name on emotes.

[ara4n]

the current misbehaviour just looks awful.

[Johennes]

An alternative could be to use the regular two-line layout for emotes as well, e.g.

[Avatar]   Kegan
 14:52     * fiddles

[HarHarLinks]

This has recently gotten worse as Compound for some reason made flabback/placeholder avatars half transparent: