Wrong emoticons displaying on this site suddenly

PJ_Soul
PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,664
edited December 2014 in Technical Stuff and Help
The emoticons suddenly seem to be auto filling with some other, much shittier type of emoticons. It seems like my phone is defaulting to them. Like, misreading the symbols. The laughing guy is just a lame looking plain smile guy next to a parenthesis, for example, and not in the style hosted on this forum. I have no idea how or why this would be happening. I didn't change any settings on my phone; it just suddenly started happening for no apparent reason. Samsung Galaxy S5. Anyone know? Thanks!
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  • shetellsherself
    shetellsherself New Jersey Posts: 8,835
    edited December 2014
    =))

    :|

    Hmmm.... These seem to be the same old weirdo smilies since the forum "upgrade". \m/ B-)
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,664
    edited December 2014
    I don't know. This is what it looks like to me:

    :)) :D

    image

    Those are supposed to be the laughing guy and the sarcastic huge smile guy. :( <<< and sad guy looks similar. Just weird.
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,444
    I noticed the same, and I'm on my computer. I like the plain ones a little better, to be honest. I still miss the old smileys. I just noticed when you type a smiley, a menu opens up and you can choose from a couple. I guess these are the most basic ones. :smile:
  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    edited December 2014
    Smileys; You can't live without them :-h
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,664

    I noticed the same, and I'm on my computer. I like the plain ones a little better, to be honest. I still miss the old smileys. I just noticed when you type a smiley, a menu opens up and you can choose from a couple. I guess these are the most basic ones. :smile:

    Yeah, well now that I'm at work I see that it's happening on my computer too. And yes, I'm getting that little drop down menu with them as well. Weird! Maybe I`ll send 10C a link to this thread. Has to be something with their website, right?
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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,444
    edited December 2014
    I have no idea, maybe this is the goodie we get today? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

    I just found out something else! If you type the : and then a letter, if shows you a number of different ones! I like them better than the old ones. :heart::grin:
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,664
    Lol. Well if they can just tell me how not to use them if I don't want to, we can both be happy! Of course, there are always these:imageimage

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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,444
    I think you can still use the new old ones with the panel on the right upper corner. And yes, the old old ones are still my fave, but I got lazy with copy and paste. These new ones work by typing something after the : And they look a lot like the Emoji ones.
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,664
    Annafalk said:

    Smileys; You can't live without them :-h

    It's true! 8-X
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,664

    I think you can still use the new old ones with the panel on the right upper corner. And yes, the old old ones are still my fave, but I got lazy with copy and paste. These new ones work by typing something after the : And they look a lot like the Emoji ones.

    Some of the upper right corner ones show just fine - the ones that use a symbol that the new drop down doesn't recognize at all. But when I select the old ones that are even only partly matching these new mystery ones, it translates it into an emoticon with a parenthesis next to it. No ma'am, I don't like it! [-X
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  • jlaustin
    jlaustin Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 2,355
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  • You all lost me at new old ones, but here's a smiley! :D
  • And wait a damn minute... that isn't the guy I picked! X(
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,664

    And wait a damn minute... that isn't the guy I picked! X(

    I know, right?! :)) <<< Neither is this one!
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  • RoleModelsinBlood31
    RoleModelsinBlood31 Austin TX Posts: 6,239
    Who uses emoticons?
    I'm like an opening band for your mom.
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,664

    Who uses emoticons?

    image

    image
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  • Sea
    Sea Posts: 3,127
    edited December 2014
    testing 1 2 3

    :-h
    :-O
    :D
    :(
    :)
    :(
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  • Kat
    Kat Posts: 4,956
    edited December 2014
    :bz :@) :(|) =P~ =P
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  • WhatYouTaughtMe
    WhatYouTaughtMe Posts: 4,957
    edited December 2014
    Sea said:

    testing 1 2 3

    :-h
    :-O
    :D
    :(
    :)
    :(

    The first two look so full of life and happy to be here(maybe not completely happy). The rest look like the stepford wives version of emoticons. So cold and artificial. What is happening to our smiley faces? It's really messing with my OCD! :D ...oh phooey! Get lost imposter!
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  • Sea
    Sea Posts: 3,127
    hmmm
    >:)