Cloudbusting
Not your average chicken
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The emojis strike back! :fence:
I remember the days before we had chat.
It's always been here. Then a lot of people moaned about it and we took it away (or at least hid it unless you were logged on) and then even more people moaned about it so we fully reinstated it. "But it's not Fortean!" NO! That's the whole bloody point of it. Its whole intention is to keep the non-Fortean stuff from polluting the actual Fortean forums, in the manner of Alan Coren's praise of Sainsburys (it keeps the riff-raff out of Waitrose.)I remember the days before we had chat.
Ahead of you there. I intend to do some swatting this weekend.Cull the emojis.
I remember when they were call emoticons instead of emojis.I remember the days before we had chat.
Desperately searches for the 'all this was fields' emoji...I remember when they were call emoticons instead of emojis.
?Desperately searches for the 'all this was fields' emoji...
When i were a lass it were all factories......
I remember when they were call emoticons instead of emojis.
Some don't seem to work.
Also, memes, (which some of our posters think are hilarious), are also very tired, but hey you listen to the music of your youth/discovered the ability to add text to a picture following your retirement which was funny about 10 years ago.
Cull the emojis.
As I understand it, emoticons are not emoji.
Emoticons are made up of entirely of typographic symbols, and smilies are the ones with smiles - although "smilies" can also mean all emoticons. Emoji are the little pictures that originally expressed emoticon images more graphically, but now include flags, hand gestures, and poo.
They'll be in the next update.(searches for appropriate emojis....)
Although, to be honest, my emotional state these days is often best represented with flags, hand gestures and poo.As I understand it, emoticons are not emoji.
Emoticons are made up of entirely of typographic symbols, and smilies are the ones with smiles - although "smilies" can also mean all emoticons. Emoji are the little pictures that originally expressed emoticon images more graphically, but now include flags, hand gestures, and poo.
Thank you...@Tigerhawk 's pictures make me laugh, and I could do with a laugh these days. But I could live without seeing the "It's aliens" guy ever again.
I never use the emojis, but I have never sent a text, so they're alien to me. (Cue the "It's aliens" guy)
Not any more they don't.You got rid of the alien and Cthulhu. People actually use those.
You just did.There are some that you've left that nobody uses, ever.
These ones:
That's probably the only time they've ever been used!You just did.
It's a slippery slopeThere are some that you've left that nobody uses, ever.
These ones:
You got rid of the alien and Cthulhu.
Eyebrow and lowbrow.The blasphemer shall meet a suitable fate (do we need both of these?)
edited to add: I love this one as it's how I feel when reading some of the more in depth posts.
I have disposed of about half of them, and resized one or two others. There were lots of near-duplicates and others that nobody ever used. They should load a lot quicker now, too.
Same hereI note that the following are still not loading properly for me. The same list that has not been loading for me (and others) for quite some time:
headbang
clap
omg
thought
doh
dunno
evillaugh
roll
bs
Or, if you can see them: .
I continue to maintain this is not (only) a timeout issue, as these immediately refuse to load, while others take their time as usual. As I said in the general technical problems thread, it's not the end of the world. But there's something else at work here, and the mystery is why it affects some of us, but not all of us.
Chas"BrokenRecord"Fink