The amount of emotes has increased a lot and most likely will increase as time goes on. The current one-way browsing through 10 pages of emotes is already painful to use. Not to mention that if you increase the amount of pages it only gets worse.
One idea would be to map the wheel menu to open pages. That way you could access emote pages 1-8 equally fast from first menu and next page would open emotes 9-16 etc. Even with these two pages there'd be plenty of room for near future emote additions (16x8 slots total). Even better if this would be optional setting so people who like old system could stay with it.
Here's reference picture just in case my explanation was confusing (sorry for lazy paint).
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Another idea is that these 8 "pages" would be static and you could throw infinite emotes into them. And when you go for example to "page 1" in picture it would paginate all emotes assigned to it. This would allow grouping etc infinite social emotes into one section, hide emotes to another and so on.
