Its annoying when I type
:D
and it comes out as
.
I'm totally with you on this! But I think we're a minority in the community. Maybe this is a case in which we should pay attention to the voting...
PS Meanwhile, do as I do: :~) :~D :~/
I kinda like the apple-style emojis. Heh.
But I like to do : D : O and stuff like that (no spaces)
But I don't. I'd rather just have the emojis as normal.
Same, though, I feel torn :-/
Wait like emoticons? Do you mean emoticons??
No, like the Unicode emojis. I want them to display in the native style not as an Apple emoji, but that's another suggestion entirely.
(... both the like :-/ emoticons and the Unicode emojis are called emoticons.)
@earthrulerr @bh :D :) :( :/
:<n />D :<n />) :<n />( :<n />/
In what is being proposed, people who like emoji could still click the 
button to insert them. It's just that the forum wouldn't change :-? into emojis.
Snap! Forums are actually Discourse, but modded and purchased by Snap! so they can use it themselves.
So the :) to 
is actually what Discourse added in, not the Snap! dev team.
They didn't purchase it.
Yes, but it's a setting. We could turn it off.
The problem with this voting mechanism is that there's no way to vote No. (Yes, I do understand why they designed it that way.)
In the meantime, you can just do it like this! :D
:</span>D
That's what I said.
Woah! I'm gone for a day and this has 7 votes already? Thanks!
Yes.
No.
Discourse is open-source, which means anyone can use it for free as long as they follow the terms of the license.
What they do pay for, is that discourse offers a service where you can pay and then they host your forum for you.
-> GitHub - discourse/discourse: A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Make it 8 votes.