Are those changes an improvement? I can tweak it a bit if it helps.
I assumed this was part of some new feature to be hosted on lemmygrad, but it maybe sounds more like a side thing? I stopped using fascismhub a long time ago, but its not hard to deploy SSGs that contain js on gitlab or codeberg and the like either.
What about something like this: https://jsfiddle.net/pskr18at/
The keywords can wrap down to expand the row height, which is probably the nicest way to handle that. The image proportions can be tweaked easily without causing stretching and scaling problems.
Also, does this the emoji list need to be static html? I dislike javascript more than nearly anyone, but using a web component could really simplify this and improve load times. You could initialize it from a single array of strings if the filenames and shortname (without the colons) matched. You wouldn’t need to use external scripts either, just a shadow dom and a little js.
Cool. It’s not much, but it still feels nice to be able to help a little around here