In a discussion about the vBulletin Emojis plugin for Discourse, cpradio introduces a plugin to revive classic vBulletin-style emojis — many animated — which coexist with modern Emojione sets without conflict. codinghorror notes that Discourse 1.2 will support custom emoji from Apple, Google, and Twitter, but cpradio argues the vB emojis have a nostalgic, distinct aesthetic that doesn’t fit modern styles. Humor ensues, including playful jabs and emoji-laden replies codinghorror and cpradio. Later, users report the plugin is broken in recent Discourse versions (e.g., 2.5.0.beta2) Hifihedgehog. Steven explains the breakage stems from new emoji group features, suggesting a fix via register_emoji in plugin code, but notes caching issues remain unresolved. cpradio offers to add Steven as a contributor to the repo. Debugging reveals a NameError: uninitialized constant Plugin::Instance::Emoji cpradio, which j.jaffeux resolves by wrapping register_emoji in an after_initialize block — a fix cpradio confirms works. sunjam asks whether to import all emojis directly or split into separate plugins; tom1984 questions if native custom emoji now support animation, noting they’ve worked well for 20+ years. Steven confirms some GIFs work, and tom1984 shares success using built-in custom emoji with CSS resizing for proper aspect ratios, citing meta.discourse.org.
For anyone who wants to relive the old days of vBulletin and bring back those emojis, have a look at the following plugin (and yes, several of them are animated)
Oh, and they do not interfere with the existing emojione emoticons, as these are all prefixed with ‘vb-’
https://github.com/cpradio/vb_emoji
A big thanks goes out to @eviltrout for his emoji extender!
Just a reminder that in the 1.2 release there will be:
choice of Emoji class from Google, Apple, Twitter, EmojiOne
custom Emoji support
Yes, that looks really neat (btw). The vB ones really don’t fit in with the Google/Apple/Twitter… ones, so I see this still being the easiest way to quickly bring in the vB emoticons, but I do like the progress that was made here within Discourse.
Well, these vb ones don’t really fit in anywhere in my opinion 
Well aware of that. As you are aware that the opinions of others are the existing ones don’t really fit in anywhere.. So the opinions are mutual across both sides. I personally don’t care enough one way over another, I simply created the plugin as 1) a test to get used to the plugin framework, and 2) because I know our forum specifically wants it.
I am just kidding. Just know, @cpradio, that I will always think of you as my
I always did consider myself a 
Too much? 
Hahahahahaha. This was too good to just like.
公共公告：该插件在过去几周内因 Discourse 最新版本 2.5.0.beta2 的发布而出现故障。再见了，vBulletin 表情符号。认识你真好。:’(
插件可以更新。该插件因一项支持创建新表情符号组的新功能而失效，但我们仍可通过插件注册新的表情符号。
我认为我们只需在 plugin.rb 文件中添加一个元素，类似如下内容：
register_emoji "doh", "/plugins/discourse-plugin-vb-emoticons/images/doh.gif", "vbulletin"
这样应该就能恢复正常运行了。
谢谢，@Steven。我看到@cpradio 最近 3 天还在论坛活跃。如果一周内他没有回复，我是否可以（在明确注明出处的前提下）根据你上面提到的修复方案 fork 他的插件？
这个修复似乎还不够，我们需要添加一些 clear_cache 命令，但我目前还不太清楚具体如何实现。我会进一步研究这个问题。
我也不介意维护它，因为我有一个类似的插件，所以当有变更时，我可以进行分组升级。
听起来是个好主意！非常感谢！
@Steven，如果你愿意，我可以把你添加到现有仓库的贡献者列表中。我很乐意分担责任。遗憾的是，我还需要一段时间才能重新搭建好 Discourse 的开发环境，很抱歉，由于一直没时间使用，我暂时已经放弃了之前的配置。
这对我来说没问题，我的 GitHub 账号是 iunctis
我还没找到让 emoji 插件正常工作的解决方案，缺少清除缓存的正确命令。
已发送邀请给你。如果还有其他想邀请的人，请告诉我。我昨晚很晚才把机器重新组装好，但只完成了 Discourse 的干净安装。我计划今晚（如果时间允许）再查看一下，最坏的情况是明晚。
这很奇怪，可能不是插件本身的问题。当我在 Discourse 的全新安装中添加我的插件并执行重建时，会出现以下错误：
Caused by:
NameError: uninitialized constant Plugin::Instance::Emoji
/var/www/discourse/lib/plugin/instance.rb:482:in `register_emoji'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-plugin-vb-emoticons/plugin.rb:12:in `activate!'
/var/www/discourse/lib/plugin/instance.rb:526:in `instance_eval'
/var/www/discourse/lib/plugin/instance.rb:526:in `activate!'
lib/discourse.rb:224:in `block in activate_plugins!'
lib/discourse.rb:221:in `each'
lib/discourse.rb:221:in `activate_plugins!'
/var/www/discourse/config/application.rb:280:in `block in <class:Application>'
/var/www/discourse/lib/plugin_initialization_guard.rb:5:in `plugin_initialization_guard'
/var/www/discourse/config/application.rb:279:in `<class:Application>'
/var/www/discourse/config/application.rb:62:in `<module:Discourse>'
/var/www/discourse/config/application.rb:61:in `<top (required)>'
/var/www/discourse/Rakefile:7:in `require'
/var/www/discourse/Rakefile:7:in `<top (required)>'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/rake-13.0.1/exe/rake:27:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/local/bin/bundle:23:in `load'
/usr/local/bin/bundle:23:in `<main>'
注意前两行：
NameError: uninitialized constant Plugin::Instance::Emoji
/var/www/discourse/lib/plugin/instance.rb:482:in `register_emoji'
@j.jaffeux，有什么想法吗？为什么找不到这个常量？它似乎正在错误的命名空间中查找。
确实有效！谢谢！
