Before this version (don’t remember when exactly), if you put:
the emoji that shows up was ![]()
Now, a lot of discussions are with
(without image) ![]()
This is a bug?
Or how can I add
?
The discussion revolves around the removal of the :+1: emoji shortcut in a recent update. SidV reports that it was replaced with a plain text :+1: instead of the thumbs up emoji. codinghorror mentions that the shortcut was lost due to the update of the emoji dictionary. eviltrout explains that +1 still aliases to thumbs up, but codinghorror and SidV point out that this doesn’t work for old posts with the :+1: shortcut. featheredtoast suggests running a find/replace script to fix the issue, but notes that it would count as an edit and bump the posts to the top. eviltrout finally provides a fix that allows the old shortcuts to work again.
Before this version (don’t remember when exactly), if you put:
the emoji that shows up was ![]()
Now, a lot of discussions are with
(without image) ![]()
This is a bug?
Or how can I add
?
Yeah in the last round of Emoji changes we lost the plus one shortcut @eviltrout which I do kinda miss.
It’s because we updated to use emoji.json from the emoji one people. It’s a much more comprehensive and up to date dictionary of words → emojis.
Having said that, +1 does alias to thumbs up, so I’m curious why you miss it? Typing that will still select the proper emoji!
Not really, you have to press enter to autocomplete and all the old posts with :+1: are busted now ![]()
I miss it, because in my forum the :+1: were too used.
Now, after the update, the messages were read with :+1: instead
icon.
If you need to, you could also run a find/replace script using one of the scripts that run on the discourse APIs out there, but this would also unfortunately count as an edit on posts, and pull the post to the top, as recent activity.
Here’s a fix that allows the old shortcuts to work too:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/55ba81494f879583a7e14d53c46c5627300d8853