broken usabilty: reacting to a story with a long text and then picking emoji deletes the whole text

[erik55]

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Bug description

If you want to reply with a text as a reaction to a story, and if then you want to add an emoji to this text and accidentally select an emoji at the top (from the emoji-only-reaction-picker): Then this emoji is immediately sent as a reaction and the entire text is unintentionally deleted.

This happens all the time to many users (even to me still sometimes), because I often get messages from readers of my stories who apologise that they only sent an emoji and unfortunately their painstakingly written text was deleted. They then often rewrite the text again in a shortened form and send it to me.

The reaction/comment-to-the-story-text should not be deleted! Perhaps the emoji-only reaction should even be completely hidden so that this cannot happen.

This happens on Android and on Desktop. I don’t know about iOS, but I suppose it is the same.

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[erik55]

Cool, this was indeed fixed. Thank you. 👍