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.)
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.