It has been pointed out that our emoticons seem a bit emotionally unstable, in that the simple smile emoticon looks like it breaking out to a full belly laugh:
There are four default emoticon icon sets to choose from. Let’s put it to the vote for a week and see what people like the best:
Preview the sets:
Emoji One (default)
Apple:
Google:
Twitter:
Emoji One
Apple’s
Google’s
Twitter’s
0voters
As for the underlying looking too happy. There is a fix for that (incredibly, I had no idea the world of emoticons was so rich and deep; and am now pretty sure this is a harbinger of civilization-level collapse etc) and we can introduce the new
I just updated the forum software (hence the downtime for a wee bit), and it looks like the new emoticons with normal smile is due to be included in the stable release at the end of March. I’ll update again then.
I think we can add custom ones - if you see a page of any you like then post a link here and we can add them. Let me try a couple…
Testing, 123…
I did this by adding a new one called ‘:oldskool_smile’, as in when I type:
:oldskool_smile:
it shows:
So, looks like it works. Mouse hover over any emoticon to get the shortcut code to type. Or when writing a post, use the emoticon icon on the top right menu bar to show what are available - the custom ones should now be at the end.
We just need a suggested name and a graphic image and I’m happy to add if people like it. Perhaps an Intruder A6 emoticon? :intruder: ? (for style reasons it’s nice if these aren’t too big and break-up the flow of the text).
I used to use the WebSmileys site quite often but it has went down in the last year or two. They had the smileys broken down into 26 categories so there should be quite a few that can still be found at the Internet Archive that would be useable.
Actually, in honor of you being just one of the plain nicest and friendliest guys we’ve all known on this and other forums for the longest time now, I’d like to dedicate this one to you: