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[waclawek.jan]

Insert emoji:

does not work.

I don't miss it - contrary, I call for removing the unnecessary stuff like this.

We don't need Comic Sans either, if you know what I mean.

JW

Hello @waclawek.jan ,

I moved this here from: Solved: Forum migration lost code formatting - STMicroelectronics Community for a better problem visibility as we want to avoid multiple topics in one thread.

Thanks for reporting this question. We are looking into the emoji situation already. Regarding the Comic Sans, noted but need more votes on this one to pass :D 

BR,
Lina - ST Community Team (New profile @Lina_DABASINSKAITE )

[Peter BENSCH]

+ no for Comic Sans

[waclawek.jan]

:D

 

[waclawek.jan]

Hey! My smiley got censored!I do have nose! I don't like my smileys to be mutilated!

JW

test, all with noses: :) :D ;)

 

[Amelie ACKERMANN]

Hello @waclawek.jan,
We can enable/disable the insertion of emojis via the admin settings. I have now enabled it - I understand you disagree, but other members might wish to use emojis as it is a very common part of written communication nowadays. Let's now see how the community makes use of emojis and take it from there. 

Best,
Amelie

[waclawek.jan]

Hi Amelie,

If "disabled" means "the icon is there but it does not work", then enabled is certainly better.

However, I don't like the forum to change the manually written smileys, e.g. the following basic smiley was written as colon dash right bracket: :)

You may find this to be pickiness, but there is an actual reason for this: in technical texts we use, combinations of non-alphabetical characters including colons and dashes and brackets occurs quite often. And "features" like these mutilate that text, too.

This again is something well understood by real forum software writers, and I see why the newfangled script kids in Khoros and alike find it amusing and don't understand that it just gets into way. I can't stress enough how frustrating small but important things like these gets into way and spoil one's day. So, just don't. If you must have emojis, insert them as images.

JW

[Amelie ACKERMANN]

Hello @waclawek.jan, 

Thanks, I understand your point. Emojis within preformatted text are turned off. Have you had issues in your technical texts, nevertheless? 

Best,
Amelie

 

 

[waclawek.jan]

Alternatively, use Unicode emojis: :grinning_face:

JW

[waclawek.jan]

Enabling emojis was maybe not the best idea.

Now it takes quite forever (25 sec) for a page to load, and quite a bit of data are transferred.

 

Emojis for the masses. A worthy goal, is it.

JW

[waclawek.jan]

This is still a problem and loading the 1500 pngs simply takes forever, for exactly zero benefit.

This is a technical forum, not a chitchat.

Just switch them off.

JW

@Amelie ACKERMANN 

@Laurids_PETERSEN 

[Laurids_PETERSEN]

Hi @waclawek.jan, 
Thanks for reaching out again.

We will discuss the performance impact of having emoji's enabled again internally.
Other options to explore could be to stop a preload of the emojis, unless the emoji component of the text editor is used, or to implement Unicode instead. 

I will keep you posted on which direction we are taking with this matter. 

Best regards, 
Laurids

[waclawek.jan]

Hi @Laurids_PETERSEN ,

I've disabled them locally long ago so can't judge the improvement.

Probably better, but I maintain that they are not needed at all. Technically savvy users can type a colon and a bracket when they need to. (And automatically correct that character combination is inappropriate, either, test, :) :( :) :( ;) :Dto cite a few

Oh, it's even more idiotic than expected. I typed an assortment of normal character smileys above, maybe half a dozen different ones, with and without nose. It threw an "invalid HTML", then upon repeated click on Post it converted *some* of them to images, and during edit it removed *all* of them and upon posting the edit - which was only adding this text without touching the smileys - it removed the converted images... I'm not going to investigate further, I don't care.).

I mean, whatever you do, this won't make it an appropriate forum anyway. Smileys and stuff we and you waste time and energy here are just the insignificant tip of the iceberg. Try to read my comments I gave to your colleagues.

JW

 

[waclawek.jan]

I've been bitten by the idiotic autoconvert again, trying to type number eight and a closing bracket. Oh, c'mon.

JW

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Button still doesn't work. Either fix it or remove the button.