New server type: "Emoji Servers" for bots

[RheingoldRiver]

Our bot uses a lot of emojis in embeds, for example:

To this end, we have a number of "emoji servers" where no one ever talks there, it just exists for us to upload 50 emojis and then the bot can use them. It's a very inconvenient system, especially because when people what to make development bots we have to invite the dev versions to every single emoji server.

I'd like to suggest a new special type of server in addition to "server template," called "emoji server." If you enable this server type, no one is able to send messages anymore, and the cap on emojis is immediately raised to 250 as if you had boosted it to level 3 (or maybe even more than that, like 500 or something). This way, you can have just one (or maybe two) emoji servers for your bot to have all of the emojis in a single location. (Also, nitro users can use this to collect their own personal emojis in a single location too, which is a cool bonus and a QOL improvement for nitro users.)

Because no one can send messages, this wouldn't be open to abuse by anyone trying to circumvent the boost system to unlock extra emojis for themselves to use.

[AlmostSuspense]

A workaround for this issue is to turn some of your emojis into 1 frame gifs, which lets you use all slots a boost-less server can give you. It might not always be ideal but it basically half the number of emote servers you need

[RheingoldRiver]

hmm, that's an interesting idea...maybe we will start doing that and backfilling the servers we have instead of making new servers for now. I'd still really like a proper implementation of emoji repositories that bots (and human nitro users) can use though.

[onerandomusername]

What about application emojis, as a way to add emojis to an application. These would essentially not have a guild, and would be usable by the application and webhooks obviously.

Additionally, there could be Team Emojis, so emojis uploaded there could be used by all applications that are part of that team.

[RheingoldRiver]

That would be cool too, although for our use case specifically it wouldn't work as well because we have people who translate news for our mobile game from Japanese to English and manually type it into a centralized news server (our community has one main server plus a few satellite servers, all of which our bot is part of). Everyone on this team has Nitro and shares the emojis that we use for our bot, so it's super convenient; we simply invite these people to our bot's servers.

Also fwiw I bet that making a new type of guild is, from a technical pov, a much easier task than creating an entirely new type of entity that bots need to be able to grab emojis from. The end state of an emoji server needs only to have two properties changed: emoji cap & whether people can send messages, and the feature is then fully implemented (barring additional UX, which I suppose is the catch, but I personally would be happy with an indefinitely-long beta release of these prior to it having nicer UX than greyed-out sending bars for everyone in the server and an inflated emoji cap haha)