RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted January 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 19, 2020 I waited until the new software had settled down before raising this as I appreciate there were more pressing issues to resolve first. If I quote a post that contains a smilie, instead of the smilie appearing in the quote there is a line of code instead. In the old forum the smilie itself appeared. Is this something that can be fixed or are we stuck with it? I am using Android. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted January 19, 2020 Moderators Share Posted January 19, 2020 It's a by-product of me configuring the software settings to only display images within quoted content as links rather than repeating images and unnecessarily lengthening posts and pages. In that context the system replaces the smiley with an image link. 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 19, 2020 Hi Andy. Talking about smileys. We used to get "favourites" (frequently used) smileys at the top of the list but recently that has gone and I have to scroll down each time to find them. Is that a deliberate change? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 45 minutes ago, AY Mod said: It's a by-product of me configuring the software settings to only display images within quoted content as links rather than repeating images and unnecessarily lengthening posts and pages. In that context the system replaces the smiley with an image link. Replacing say 4 smilies with links, isn't that more space taken up on screen ? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Sol said: Replacing say 4 smilies with links, isn't that more space taken up on screen ? But overall a few lines of code instead of a few smillies far outways a few lines of code (the link) instead of photos, so overall the forum is smaller. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted January 20, 2020 Moderators Share Posted January 20, 2020 9 hours ago, melmerby said: Is that a deliberate change? I seems to depend on device and browser. I don't get it on PC/Chrome but I do on Android devices. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted January 20, 2020 Moderators Share Posted January 20, 2020 8 hours ago, Sol said: Replacing say 4 smilies with links, isn't that more space taken up on screen ? The point I'm making is that posts such as this https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/64295-wright-writes/&do=findComment&comment=3807782 would take up a lot of space if the images weren't replaced with links. Now, if all users could prune the content they are quoting down appropriately then I wouldn't have to institute such measures. 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium njee20 Posted January 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2020 Agreed! Instant ban for anyone who quotes the post immediately preceding theirs, with 68 photos, just to add “looks great”. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted January 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2020 I always prune the quote to the specific sentence I'm responding to, but there are a couple of threads where huge posts are quoted (such as WW) when the quote refers to a minor point within and it's difficult to understand the point being made. It also makes me laugh when some posters refer to a particular thread being popular because it runs to XXX number of pages when the reality is that 50% of the content is quoted posts 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2020 1 hour ago, AY Mod said: I seems to depend on device and browser. I don't get it on PC/Chrome but I do on Android devices. I don't get favourites on PC/Firefox or Android, both used to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 1 hour ago, AY Mod said: The point I'm making is that posts such as this https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/64295-wright-writes/&do=findComment&comment=3807782 would take up a lot of space if the images weren't replaced with links. Now, if all users could prune the content they are quoting down appropriately then I wouldn't have to institute such measures. While I will agree in replacing large images with links, I was like the OP refering to smilies / emoticons which takes up possibly two characters on a line as compared to many characters of a link. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted January 20, 2020 Moderators Share Posted January 20, 2020 7 minutes ago, Sol said: I was like the OP refering to smilies / emoticons which takes up possibly two characters on a line as compared to many characters of a link. So how do I get the system to differentiate between a smiley and a large image? It can't, they're just images. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted January 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2020 Test with smiley Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted January 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2020 Just now, Stubby47 said: Test with smiley Quote with smiley Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted January 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2020 4 minutes ago, Stubby47 said: Test with smiley Interesting. Have just checked other threads and some quoted smilies are appearing and some aren't. Does it depend on the path of the image used? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted January 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2020 4 hours ago, Stubby47 said: Test with smiley Hmmmm..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RFS Posted January 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2020 (edited) Deleted post. Edited January 20, 2020 by RFS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted January 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2020 7 hours ago, AY Mod said: So how do I get the system to differentiate between a smiley and a large image? It can't, they're just images. They are all stored in the community/uploads/emoticons folder aren’t they? If so a regexp on the filename ought to be able to reliably detect them...? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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