XF 2.1 Question about importing smilies from older XF versions

[Ludachris]

I have a couple situations where I'll be moving to 2.1 and am curious how the old smilies will be handled when planning to use full unicode text emojis. Can you use the newer emojis and have the legacy smilies remain intact from older XF versions, and maybe even other forum data imports? Or would the new emojis overwrite the old ones?

 

[Paul B]

Can you use the newer emojis and have the legacy smilies remain intact from older XF versions

Yes - that is the case here on this site.

 

[Ludachris]

Yes - that is the case here on this site.

Are the old smilies still available to use here in new posts? I don't see any that look like legacy smilies. Are they grouped separately?

 

[Paul B]

They are under the Smilies button in the editor.

Note that the images themselves have changed over the years but they are still regular smilies: https://xenforo.com/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emojione/sprite_sheet_emojione.png

 

[Chris D]

You can swap that URL out for:

https://xenforo.com/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/xenforo/sprite_sheet_xenforo.png

If you want to use the old style smilies.

 

[Ludachris]

They are under the Smilies button in the editor.

Note that the images themselves have changed over the years but they are still regular smilies: https://xenforo.com/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emojione/sprite_sheet_emojione.png

Understood - so the "Smilies" grouping represents the legacy smilies? I'm guessing there's a setting in the import (and upgrade) process to preserve the legacy image sets so that they are preserved?

 

[Ludachris]

You can swap that URL out for:

https://xenforo.com/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/xenforo/sprite_sheet_xenforo.png

If you want to use the old style smilies.

Is it possible to use the old ones AND the new emojis? Or do you have to pick one or the the other?

 

[Chris D]

Yes you can use the old smilie graphics and keep emojis in the new style.

 

[Ludachris]

Great, thanks guys.