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New Smilies?

  1. candydate
    Member

    I really like the polished look of the new icon set - it's sooo stylish! WordPress FTW!

  2. rosenruthie
    Member

    I also don't like the new smilies! Please, give us back the old ones! Or, at least, let us choose - new or old. Thank you.

  3. rebeccaluellamiller
    Member

    It's the little things that make WordPress better than ... others, in my opinion. And smilies was one of the little things I was always happy about. If we voted, I'd vote for NO CHANGE. Bloggers who don't want smilies can turn them off. Those of us who like them don't want cheap, washed out versions. I think the winking smilie looks like he has a black eye. It's become a punch-in-the-face smilie. LOL (See, sometimes the emoticon can help readers know when you're kidding so they don't take offense).

  4. oppositopia
    Member

    Sorry I can't help, izaakmak, but since this seemed like the general New Smilies Hate Thread I had to say: yeah, giving me a choice would have been decent. Now, if I turn the smilies off in my blog, how am I going to know when the new-new emoticons are in place so I can enable smilies again? There probably isn't going to be an announcement, since these horrid deformed-looking ones were a surprise as well.
    (That being said, that's pretty much my only complaint about WP in three years.)

  5. okwriter2
    Member

    Ah, well...the ugly new smilies will give me something to blog about...

  6. izaakmak
    Member

    I'd like to think that I can work with the new ones, If they'd update the cheat sheet so I know what I'm doing! I've considered making my own, but what if the new list is longer than the old one?

  7. aw1923
    Member

    Well in what feels like hours of time wasted and what also makes me look like a persistant nerd, I found the wordpress plugin that shows the updated smilies, obviously we can't use plugins here but it does at least show the screenshot, they're using the tango smilies
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tango-smilies/screenshots/

  8. aw1923
    Member

    oh and this means theres no freakin' :lol: or animated smilie.... :(

  9. timethief
    Member

    I'm wading in to say that my dislike of the new smilies is so intense that I shut them off.

  10. justjennifer
    Moderator

    What smilies?

  11. gurlinterrupted
    Member

    The new :mrgreen: scared me so much that I panicked and searched the dashboard looking for some settings to change it back. But it's nowhere to be found... Plus, that :lol: smiley has always been my favorite "mocking" icon.
    Shame, why are they doing this to us?

  12. izaakmak
    Member

    Thanks aw1923 for the cheat sheet link. At least I know what I'm going to get in advance. But there are 3 added ones in the new list. Do you know what to type to get them?

  13. aw1923
    Member

    you enter in these for the last three:
    :kiss:
    :angel:
    :/

  14. izaakmak
    Member

    Thanks.

  15. otto42
    Member

    This change got made to the WP software in general, it's not unique to WordPress.com: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10145

    For self-hosted WordPress users, I've made a plugin to undo these new (and hideously ugly) smilies and replace them with the original classic smilies. If and when 2.9 gets released with these, that is.

    The plugin can currently be found here: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/10145/classic-smilies.zip

  16. justjennifer
    Moderator

    @otto42 Well, good on you! Of course that doesn't help us WordPress.COM users, so you might want to post that over in the ORG forums. Just sayin'...

    Dear Powers-That-Be, please, please
    Put 'em back
    the way they wuz
    oh, put 'em back the way they wuz.
    They was dumb, they was heathen,
    but at least they was breathin,
    so whatever else you does,

    Put 'em back the way they wuz!
    Put 'em back [put em back]
    The way they wuz [the way they wuz]
    oh, put 'em back the way they wuz!

    They was plumb unattractive,
    but by gum, they was active,
    so I beg you kindly 'cause,
    put 'em back the way they wuz!

  17. otto42
    Member

    Plugin now has an official page here:
    http://ottodestruct.com/blog/wordpress-plugins/classic-smilies/

    Also posted on the .org forums.

  18. glorf1ndel
    Member

    These new smilies are the worst EVER!! Washed out and hideous! NO ONE on ICHC likes them. And the worst part is, the classic ones were so good that we used them to augment our comments, to enhance the humor or our mood. Therefore, ALL of these commnents now either make no sense (as some of the smilies no longer exist and have perhaps been replaced by who KNOWS what! or are not nearly as funny as they once were. You have done all of us a tremendous disservice with this change.

    Also, the bright, crisp yellow added to the "happy" feel of our comment pages. All this is now gone! SURELY you must have some tech people capable of figuring this out! And fixing it

    I, who once happily applied smilies to emphasize almost everything I said, can no longer use them. They ae simply too ugly and I do not want the associated with my name.

  19. reynie
    Member

    :roll: now shows a smiley with a tongue.

    arrggh... they f*cked up 'the smileys' completely.

  20. reynie
    Member

    Overview: The 'old WP smileys' vs. 'new WP smileys' vs. 'Tango smileys'.

    http://reynewaeter.com/reynie.net/smiley.html

  21. nako0410
    Member

    I think, the new smileys, aspecially this one :mrgreen: looks like a lego-figure. I hate them, and I'm not the only one, I think. Please bring the old smileys back!!! Or give the users an option to decide, what kind of smileys they want to use.

    Thank you!

  22. izaakmak
    Member

    @reynie: Thanks for the nice chart!

  23. t3ck
    Member

    I noticed the evil and twisted smiley look exactly the same. :( VS the old set had a small difference between them.

  24. vikasjnu
    Member

    Reynie, thank you so much for the chart!:)

  25. arizonad
    Member

    There's a few of the new ones I like, but most of them are poor substitutes for the old smilies. I might need to make my own while I wait for a better set.

  26. taboono
    Member

    With the world of modern technology and a gazillion different emoticons out there, I don't see why WordPress can't offer a substantial variety from which we could choose. I was never fond of the old smilies, but certainly they were better than these new ones. I guess I just need to disable them. Sigh.

  27. shellylives
    Member

    It's glad to see that I'm not alone in finding the new smilies a total turnoff.

    I want my mrgreen back! And my animated lol smiley!
    And I still don't understand why the new ":)" smiley doesn't even look like it's smiling. Which is mighty mighty sad, if you ask me.

    Rule of thumb: Don't fix it if it ain't broke!
    And by the looks of it from this topic thread, many of us want what we previously had!

  28. arizonad
    Member

    Agreed. The :)is too subtle, and :D and mrgreen look very uncomfortable.

  29. capricorncringe
    Member

    These smilies are terrible. They look cheap, washed-out and amateurish. I'm turning them off until WordPress fixes it

  30. rebeccaluellamiller
    Member

    "They look cheap, washed-out and amateurish." That's the point! What we had before looked quirky and cute. They added humor and personality. These new ones detract rather than enhance. I'm glad to learn, at least, that this was not something initiated by WordPress, but can they and will they fix it?!!? Please, please bring back the old smilies!

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