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Since we're in a complaining mood of late (relating to the new board, & not that it really matters, but)...

I'll just comment that I don't care for the (new) Smilies.

While "cuter", if you care about that, I find them far harder to distinguish, so less informative, compared to the older, simpler versions.


(And while I'm at it, I might as well throw in a smilie :-).)
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Post by GµårÐïåñ »

I have to agree, not a big fan of the square orange smilies either.
Thankfully, a first world problem. :D
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therube wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 5:53 pm I find them far harder to distinguish, so less informative, compared to the older, simpler versions.
+1 and not just that, some of these smilies express a very different emotion than is named in their tooltip, some have totally different meaning than their old counterparts
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(I'll point out, that I generally only use two smilies, wink & smile.
And rarely use the Smilie "picker".
And the only reason I use those two, is that I happen to know the "code" for them ; - ) & : - ).
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Post by landcycling »

I need to agree with this one. I'm not a big fan of the smiles on here either and probably wont use them just due to the block look.
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Post by Giorgio Maone »

I switched to the square smilies because unfortunately phpBB still uses GIFs (so no alpha based anti-alias), and the original smillies set has horrible white borders which clash with dark themes.

I've restored a slightly tweaked version of the original set which fixes this issue.
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Much better! Thank you Giorgio :D 8-)
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