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Discord: How to Add Reactions to Messages

Discord: How to Add Reactions to Messages

By Mel Hawthorne 6 Comments

Discord is designed as a communication app for gamers. The voice chat channels are a big part of that functionality that specifically enables in-game communication. The text chat channels are the other key part of communication over Discord.

Text-based communication is great because you don’t necessarily have to be available at the same time as the people you’re talking and making plans with. There are plenty of use cases for the text channels, from memes to long-form discussions. Occasionally you may want to respond or acknowledge a message without actually sending a full message yourself. Helpfully, Discord allows you to do so with the “Reaction” feature.

Reactions are just emoji that you can put next to any post. To react to a message with an emoji, hover your mouse over the message you want to react to, then click on the smiley face with a plus icon labelled “Add Reaction” on the far-right side.

Hover your mouse over the message you want to react to, then click the “Add Reaction” icon on the right of the message.

Picking an emoji

Once you’ve clicked “Add Reaction” an emoji picker popup will appear, allowing you to pick which emoji you want to use to react with just by clicking on them. The emoji list first has a “Frequently used” section so you can easily access emoji you use regularly. Next are the custom emoji for all the servers that you are a member of, in the order in which they are listed in your server list. If the message you’re reacting to is in a server with custom emoji, you will be able to use those to react with. You can’t use emoji from other servers unless you pay for Discord Nitro, if you can’t use an emoji it will be greyed out.

Underneath all of the custom emoji are the standard Discord emoji that work everywhere. The text box at the top of the emoji picker is a search bar, it only searches emoji that you can actually react with. You can also scroll through the list of servers and classes of emoji on the left of the emoji picker to quickly skip to the section you want.

Scroll through the emoji picker, then click on the emoji you want to react with.

If someone has already reacted with an emoji that you want to react with, you can just click it under the comment, the number next to it will increment up by one. if you hover your mouse over a reaction you can see the people who have reacted with it.

Tip: This even works for emoji you wouldn’t normally have access to, such as those from another server, as long as the person first reacting with it has the ability to do so.

If someone has already reacted with the emoji you want to react with, you can just click on it.

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Comments

  1. Noone says

    April 24, 2022 at 3:39 pm

    This no longer works as soon as even one person sends a reaction.

  2. Atnok says

    January 11, 2022 at 10:12 am

    Note to those who can’t react check your settings under text and images options and make sure you have the “show emoji reactions” turned on.

  3. Grace says

    December 25, 2021 at 9:07 pm

    On the app on my computer there is not a reaction button *anywhere* and I can’t figure it out outside of the mobile app. I even made sure that reactions were allowed in the permissions of that channel and still nothing appears.

  4. Your mother says

    November 29, 2021 at 12:12 pm

    this didnt help, cause it doesent say add reaction. in discord.

  5. . says

    May 25, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    Press and hold the message u want to react to

  6. HOW says

    April 13, 2021 at 6:38 pm

    How do you do this on mobile?

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