Do you thing we should have better smilies?

jp_bl_68 · 12 Dec 2010 at 22:26

Disco Boy said:
Animated ones look tacky more often than not, the current ones are fine.

I'd tend to agree with this. Although AV Forums do have some nice animated smilies that look quite good and they use vBulletins too.

A facepalm smiley might be nice though.

semi-pro waster · 12 Dec 2010 at 22:33

explicit4u said:
They're fine as they are. But it's so hard to portray anger with the stupid Christmas hat on!!!

I'm sure last year there was no Christmas hat on the angry smiley. I quite like it though, it rather distracts from the rage or the sarcasm - you just can't quite take the fury seriously.

Animated smileys aren't always terrible but more often than not I prefer the simplicity of the static options we have here.

gee3000 · 12 Dec 2010 at 22:35

I reckon there should be other layouts and emoticon sets available, and users provided the option to choose which they prefer to browse with. That way the resident old farts get to keep their 90's theme and emoticons and everyone else can rejoin the current decade

Ps. I prefer the classic PHPBB emoticons to the ones on this board.

mjt · 12 Dec 2010 at 22:38

Less is more.

wo0kie · 12 Dec 2010 at 22:40

hate graphical smilies. An option to turn them off would be nice.

Mr-White · 12 Dec 2010 at 22:41

A few more would be nice, but they'll need to fit in with the current non animated smilies

MW

Ciphon · 12 Dec 2010 at 22:41

Agree with the animated / large smilies looking tacky...

I like the clean look, more modern

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OCdude · 12 Dec 2010 at 22:41

Fine as it is. I'd rather not have these forums looking like some teenage girls MSN client/Myspace page TYVM!

meghatronic · 12 Dec 2010 at 22:44

I would love to have these smilies all year round

chaparral · 12 Dec 2010 at 22:55

godinman said:
No, leave them as they are.

steve-h · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:18

meghatronic said:
I would love to have these smilies all year round

same

NathanE · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:24

Minimalist web design is the way forward

meghatronic · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:25

NathanE said:
Minimalist web design is the way forward

Megahurtz400 · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:44

A :/ one would be good, but thats about all that should be added imo.

lcg · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:47

NathanE said:
Minimalist web design is the way forward

Aod · 13 Dec 2010 at 01:20

please don't change them. the OcUK smilies are the only ones on the whole internet that i love, and most of the others i despise.

wo0kie · 13 Dec 2010 at 01:39

I wouldn't mind them if they were smaller and didn't mess up the line spacing of the text.

Dewotter · 13 Dec 2010 at 02:05

NathanE said:
Minimalist web design is the way forward

Also, less is more.

Redmint · 13 Dec 2010 at 03:04

Not generally a fan of animated smilies, but I've always liked this one.