So I’ve just discovered how to find all the Mumsnet secret emojis.

[BiscuityBoyle]

Perhaps everyone already knew this, but I’ve just found this out by accident.

What you do is type a word and the put a square bracket without a space. Then just type a letter and the emojis come up. See the picture.*

*may only work on iPads.

They are just the traditional MN emojis. No secret if you have been here long enough. Also plainly available as an emoji option in the message box.

Not all of them, though

Doesn't work on iPhone annoyingly but typing the full word gets these ones.

I know about the traditional MN emojis. What I was referring to was the way you can get them to pop up and show you a list.

🗿Now when would I ever feel the need to use this??

Thank you! I had a break from MN and when I came back I couldn't find these.

Thank you for this - I didn’t know.

But I can do them all on the app, are you all using the site?

There's always 😵‍💫 to use if you can't get

I am very fond of the old-school MN emojis. You can see at a glance what they mean - no squinting to see whether it’s ‘crying’ or ‘crying with laughter’.
And there is the sceptical emoji:
[ hmm ]

is or should be at the heart of many MN discussions.

I recall the frisson of excitement whenever a new emoji was unveiled. Those were the days, eh?

And the gloriously odd names. why are the emojis [confused ] and [shock ], for example, not [shocked ]? why is the mug [brew ] and not [tea ]?

Oh, quite, but there was an extensive, idiosyncratic MN vocabulary then such as norks and fanjo. Coincidentally, I’ve only just realised that the double dashes no longer work for striking out.

Nooo to the double dash - though it is good that strike through is there in the message box as well as bold etc

And the creepy wee brackets

Yes! And for reasons I don't even understand I don't like seeing non MN emoji on MN.

Are emojis and emoticons the same thing BTW? If not what's the difference. And if so when and why did they change from emoticons to emoji?

I think I'll just stick to using the hundreds that come with my phone keyboard.

wtf is this little blighter?

And lemon drizzle cake....don't forget the lemon drizzle cake.

Aren't these <> the creepy wee brackets? Which isn't how you make italics

creepy wee circumflexes isn’t it?