Kakistocracy is a new one for me. I like it.

I can see why nations that have limitations on Nazi-related topics may be slow to relax those limitations. But introducing new limitations at this point is confounding to me. I can imagine reasons for doing so, certainly. But I wouldn't have expected it from Russia. A curious almost politically-correct kind of censorship.

Ha. I need to read more.

oodles. I searched to see if they'd put smiley faces in unicode yet. they did, but gog scrubs em out. but if you reply to a post after the smiley faces it still triggers the notify it seems. in my original post I put some and they show up in the edit field and then I remembered what Crassmaster had said and replied to your post and basically said something like "hey tinyE great day to be on gog right lol" and put like 5 smiley faces in it.

So... I don't object to forums banning emoji, but when I reflexively typed <compose>+:p which is bound to the unicode winking smiley in my .XCompose, it rendered fine in the text area, but then truncated all text past that point in the forum post. This IMO is a bug - probably due to something like using mysql plus the long hated non-utf8mb4 that only supports BMP and silently truncates everything past such a character. It's even been a source of security holes in past where people use it to truncate a string down on db insert after it passes a validation layer with the longer string.

In my case it was just irritating to retype everything.

Confirmed... I pasted the Chinese ideograph U+28B4E which is outside the BMP and got truncation again. I'm betting on bad mysql configuration and nothing unicode specific...
Also ☺ and ☹ work just fine, presumably due to being in the BMP.

The only useful purpose emojis serve is instantly letting you know that the post they appear in isn't worth reading.

Kyberneticist gestures at the thread! The thread shudders and begins to move!

GOG does support Unicode/Emoji. In the dumbest way possible. Manual entry. 🐝

You have to go to the XML decimal entity and key that in. And it really stings when you go an edit a post.

This thread reminds me of better times. :(

Emojis. . .

Seriously?

I don't recall if I have mentioned this, but I'd need some adblocker or something that would block all the avatar pictures.

This is not a major problem on GOG forums where the avatar pictures are quite small, but there are some other discussion forums where the avatar pictures can be very large and on your face all the time, and some users choose to use some quite controversial and offending avatars. The kind that my colleagues, boss or wife will certainly notice if they see them on my screen.

I wish these forum software would always give the option to not show extra graphical content like avatar pictures and emojis, since so many people go way overboard with that shit.

Huh, that's an old thread.

I'm still against emojis and embedded pictures and videos in here. Especially that now I myself fall for this sweet, sweet temptation to use them all the time (I blame discord for making it too easy). I hate it but I can't stop myself. So please keep them away from this place, it's in bad enough shape without any of those graphical enhancements. ;)

Yeah, I wasn't arguing for or against, so much, as noting that I think the forum's current behaviour is due to a database misconfiguration, and the truncation is irritating and extends beyond emojis.

... but I do think when used in moderation, a little wink or smiley face can relay a bit of emotion lacking in text, and avoid misunderstandings online... But I'll make do with "☺" which is in the BMP and as noted above, still works.

Entering entities manually to work around bugginess is too tedious. I will have to watch out for reflexively typing my digraph for :p though, which is not in the BMP.

oh hi 2015

We can still use these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons