Hi! is there a way to disable auto-emoji such as :slight_smile: :) in the chat too? Right now the setting only applies to topic and posts.

There is not, I opened a bug report about it a while back: [image] Emoji shortcuts setting ignored in chat when turned off Bug The site setting enable emoji shortcuts doesn’t seem to work on 34a83fe1c8 in chat, :/, :), :D, etc will still change to their emoji variants with…

Disable auto-emoji in chat

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Falco (Falco) June 24, 2025, 4:39pm 3

Fixed in Disable emoji shortcuts in chat - #6 by joffreyjaffeux

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Disable auto-emoji in chat

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