About the smilies on the forums...

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The one that is used right now is this one: http://emojione.com/demo

It turns out there are more variations of the emojis that we can use as well: https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-selector-and-custom-emoji/22725

Let me know if you all are OK with this selection or whether I should try the Google, Apple, or Twitter one :elephant:

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The current ones are decent; hopefully Discourse will just fall back to using actual emoji in a few months/years when Chrome for Windows (etc.) finally supports them properly.