yoghurtfarmer
Well-known member
Just noticed the change to the emoticons Shelley made . Will this change be reflected in 1.0.0 or would be they offered as an alternative smiley set?
That's correct.As far as I am aware, both sets will be included.
Thank God both sets are included.
There was nothing wrong with the old smilies. Those doodles were great!
These are too soft, too girly. Not my style. Reminds me too much of when I used to run a phpBB board. I also can't really see a forum where majority are male to enjoy these compared to the more both-gender-friendly smilies. What I really liked about the older ones is that they were simple, bright, thicker lines and easier in the text (not too intrusive - they are just ascii replacements after all) and bit easier on the eyes. These are just too dark in color, too colorful and while they are great as a set, they feel as an 'additional' set or a personal wordpress blog. I am sure a lot of people will like them, they're not 'ugly' - but my first impression is that they are not 'xenforo'.
Thank God both sets are included.
There was nothing wrong with the old smilies. Those doodles were great!
These are too soft, too girly. Not my style. Reminds me too much of when I used to run a phpBB board. I also can't really see a forum where majority are male to enjoy these compared to the more both-gender-friendly smilies. What I really liked about the older ones is that they were simple, bright, thicker lines and easier in the text (not too intrusive - they are just ascii replacements after all) and bit easier on the eyes. These are just too dark in color, too colorful and while they are great as a set, they feel as an 'additional' set or a personal wordpress blog. I am sure a lot of people will like them, they're not 'ugly' - but my first impression is that they are not 'xenforo'.
Old post, no doubt, but I'm not sure how many of us see "" and automatically think "Woah, that smilie means not worthy!"
That raises the question if it's handy in the first place to include smilies in a product that are difficult to understand. Yes, with the inclusion of these new smilies in XenForo the meaning of some of them is unknown/not recognizable anymore... so the need of tooltips (thatare luckily included in the smilies dropdown) becomes bigger.
: this is supposed to represent... ' love'. Well... I don't think many people would get that without the help of a tooltip. In my opinion... basic smilies in a product should not need a tooltip to explain to it's endusers what they mean. That's why the former/original XenForo smilies pack was not bad at all.
Thank God both sets are included.
There was nothing wrong with the old smilies. Those doodles were great!
These are too soft, too girly. Not my style. Reminds me too much of when I used to run a phpBB board. I also can't really see a forum where majority are male to enjoy these compared to the more both-gender-friendly smilies. What I really liked about the older ones is that they were simple, bright, thicker lines and easier in the text (not too intrusive - they are just ascii replacements after all) and bit easier on the eyes. These are just too dark in color, too colorful and while they are great as a set, they feel as an 'additional' set or a personal wordpress blog. I am sure a lot of people will like them, they're not 'ugly' - but my first impression is that they are not 'xenforo'.
http://xenforo.com/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/What would make this addition complete is the "steaming pile of poo" smiley...seriously!
Nobody ever said there was anything wrong with the smilies Kier designed. You mentioned this yourself. This is primarily all about giving the customers more, giving them the ability to edit every element of the smiley down to the pupil, eyes, hands to the base layer colouring. The alternative smiley pack is fully layered, and gives the customer full control in modding the smilies. And this to me is xenforo and what xenforo stands for.
Smilies will always be preference driven, Me myself think the devs made a wise choice giving their customers the choice of another smiley pack, more importantly a smiley pack that is fully layered, vectored that no other forum software provides.
Agree 110%But since XenForo has a distinctly modern look, they fit in pretty nicely.
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