New Smilies

[ucfgrad93]

arn IMO they are horribly done, very hard to distinguish between them, weak colors and not enough boldness on the mouth/eyes to distinguish them w/out me having to look closely They are too small for them to look good in their new colors.

Agreed. They are very difficult to distinguish between them. I like the old ones much better.

 

[SilentPanda]

I think you guys need an emoticon to express your disdain for the emoticon change.

 

[LizKat]

New smilies are weird, but they're okay.

imo you're batting .500, which is only stellar in baseball. The new ones are past weird all right, but they're defintely not okay by me and I have just become a fan of not using emoticons until the MacRumors site brings back what I now fondly think of as the brat pack.

 

[Agent OrangeZ]

Love the new smilies!

 

[SkyBell]

Well, I suppose we'll all get used to them over time. Still not a huge fan, though...

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

Agree with many of the comments. I never use the smilies myself, opting for or (; instead, but there just isn't enough contrast to be seen as quickly and easily as the old ones (which were nothing to give an award to).

I realize that changing the smilies is a pretty simple thing to do, but it makes me chuckle that they would even bother worrying about something like this when the software the forums run on, and the look that corresponds to it, is about a hundred years old.

 

[dannyyankou]

You clearly don't know the workaround OP

 

[Oohara]

You clearly don't know the workaround OP Image

Yep, a bit more work but it's the only way to roll now. Those new smilies are so wimpy

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

The new smileys are very hard to make out on a non-retina model. I also thought the old ones looked better, probably because they were more simple.

 

[APlotdevice]

Screw smilies. Emoji are where it's at! #


(Yes, I'm aware that not every platform can display Emoji)

 

[jeremysteele]

Does seem a bit odd that the smilies have gone more aqua when everything else Apple is moving towards flat. They remind me of the old MSN messenger ones.

Well, duh.

Arn is trying to stay ahead of the curve. All trends are cyclical!

 

[APlotdevice]

Huh, is anyone else getting a missing image icon for the "confused" smilie?

 

[S.B.G]

Nope; working for me. Try flushing your DNS and/or clearing your browser cache.

 

[SilentPanda]

Maybe the confused icon is confused about its existence.

 

[Carlanga]

Huh, is anyone else getting a missing image icon for the "confused" smilie?

Maybe the confused icon is confused about its existence.

Maybe it's just showing him the ??? part that is missing from the new confused emoticon.

IMO this looks more like its sick and about to throw up than confused

 

[Don't panic]

add one voice to the people strongly disliking the new smilies.

terrible job.

they only things that allows to sort of making them apart is that they kept the color-code of the old ones.
if you mixed the colors up, nobody would recognized any of them except the cool and the apple one.

score: 2/10

please redesign them.

 

[Ish]

This site had the best emoticons on the web imo. They were actually amusing to look at. These are just bleh.

Please Arn, bring back the old ones ):

You clearly don't know the workaround OP Image

Come on then dannyyankou, what workaround …

 

[simsaladimbamba]

This site had the best emoticons on the web imo. They were actually amusing to look at. These are just bleh.

Please Arn, bring back the old ones ):




Come on then dannyyankou, what workaround …

The one where you link to an external smiley.

You clearly don't know the workaround OP

[plain][IMG]http://www.antsmarching.org/forum/images/smilies/wink.gif[/IMG][/plain]

gets you this:

 

[Ish]

The one where you link to an external smiley.

What, like this?

Shame they had to change.

When I first saw the new ones I thought

. It's enough to make one

.

It's a shame to spoil such a good thing,

the old ones were

Thank you!

ps can't manage to link to the yellow smilie.

 

[cambookpro]

Are there any plans to change the icons that can be set with a new thread as well?

Browsing through the forums and I just noticed that the old '' is still used for threads, along with thumbs up, a bulb and a few more I can't remember!

 

[Tilpots]

Tried to let these grow on me over time. I still don't like them. Hopefully these are a failed experiment like the one way voting system on these boards and both will go away soon. Damn shame such time was put into this instead of a MR app. I'd vote this thread down and put an angry smiley, but I'm on an iPhone and can't do either. Odd, because the company this forum covers makes so much money from a platform that this site doesn't fully support. What would the tragic irony smiley look like? Maybe I'd like that one.

 

[Jessica Lares]

I just hooked up a new monitor to my machine and they look a little better and are growing on me.

My favorite is , but he actually doesn't look mad at all, more like constipated.

 

[noodlemanc]

Hello 2005.

 

[Zwhaler]

I just noticed them. Do not like them. Just saying
& "confused" does not load for me.

-Z

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Huh, is anyone else getting a missing image icon for the "confused" smilie?

Ah, yes. Me, too….

This evening, I am also getting a missing image (replaced by a square box in which resides a nice, fat, question mark) which has changed throughout the evening as it seems to be working its way down the list of smilies. As it happened, this process started with the 'confused' smilie, which, in the circumstances, strikes me as something which is completely appropriate.

In truth, I am merely reporting that this seems to be happening, and seems to have been taking place for a number of hours whenever I checked in on the firms tonight; however, as I rarely use the smilies, it is not something I regard as a matter of overweening importance; rather, I am merely reporting that is happening.