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Chris D said:
Sprite sheets are kind of irrelevant these days. Individual images are probably the way to go. Serving them individually is more performant particularly with HTTP/2.
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Agreed, it's also kind of silly to even be serving images for reactions and smilies because you have a ton of high-quality versions built into people's devices these days as well as FontAwesome options, but I'm probably the minority that thinks that. :)

See "Display style":

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There are the people who value consistency between platforms, and the native emoji certainly aren’t entirely consistent between platforms. They especially look rubbish on a Windows laptop, so a second reason to have bundled images.
 
Arantor said:
There are the people who value consistency between platforms, and the native emoji certainly aren’t entirely consistent between platforms. They especially look rubbish on a Windows laptop, so a second reason to have bundled images.
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I disagree. Emoji should be additive, native should be the standard. Emoji ARE standard, mostly. They look different but the people on say windows will be used to that style and not notice a difference.
 
Arantor said:
There are the people who value consistency between platforms, and the native emoji certainly aren’t entirely consistent between platforms. They especially look rubbish on a Windows laptop, so a second reason to have bundled images.
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Yep... wasn't suggesting to remove the option for images, rather just have additional options, that's all.
 
And yet, the platforms using native emoji on Windows really are in the minority, even with official native apps on Windows 10/11 (Discord comes to mind as the one I use most often, but it’s far from alone)

And yes, additional options are welcome in this arena.
 
I use my device emoji where possible now (three of the non-XF sites I use regularly support them) when posting on my phone. Seem to look fine when I then go back and look at the same post in Windows. I use Chrome on Android with GBoard as my keyboard. That said, I'd need to do some testing in my dev before I'd use them on Wondercafe2.
 
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And yet, the platforms using native emoji on Windows really are in the minority, even with official native apps on Windows 10/11 (Discord comes to mind as the one I use most often, but it’s far from alone)

And yes, additional options are welcome in this arena.
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True, but the alternative would be to then cover ALL emoji, not just a small subset of "smilies" no? Which I suppose would accomplish what Im arguing for, ala discord or others. You get consistency, you use the emoji characters, but you have to have all of them. In summary I think smilies themselves should be additive, and there can just be some standard library to cover the rest. I wonder if you could just force non-windows/apple to use Google, say. https://www.webfx.com/tools/emoji-cheat-sheet/
 
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True, but the alternative would be to then cover ALL emoji,
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EmojiOne is a pretty full set - there's over 3000 icons in the full package. There's also Twemoji that does something similar.

It's certainly possible to switch between native and platform-supplied images; an emoji is a defined sequence of bytes, after all, and so is an image reference.

I dunno, I'm really really on the fence about it because I get the argument in favour of using native emojis - and if you're on a platform where they look good, great. But I wish MS would hire some designers already :P
 
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And that's great. But we're not all you - I haven't picked up my phone in days. Probably needs charging.
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Wish I could do that. Use it a lot for work, though (it's a company phone, in fact) so it tends to remain close at hand most of the time.
 
Looking forward to a new version with new features and a more modern look :), I even thought they were out of development, like maintenance mode.

I've been following Xenforo for almost 1 year, I even thought about giving up on creating a community with it, because it seems that development is very slow, more focused on maintenance.

It would be interesting public roadmap and maybe even public Git so we can follow the work or part of it. There is also a lack of data on the stability of the project in general, how many full-time professionals are working on Xenforo and future versions? It seems to me a fantastic project with great usability, but perhaps they need to interact and be more transparent with the community and of course their customers, after all it is a high-value product that we pay for the license to use and there is also the Cloud, even more reason to focus on modernization.

I also miss translations into several languages, even free Open Source projects have support for several native languages, for example we don't have an official option for Portuguese Brazil.

As for Hosting, it is up to each user to adapt to the requirements, if necessary, use a great Cloud, which is always the right one, even for a better user experience and today there is Hetzner, Digital Ocean, AWS, Linode, etc., there is no shortage of options .
 
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