Converted board, can I make the :) shortcut create a new, modern emoji?

[David N.]

Right now if someone types the  : ) shortcut (no space), it is automatically replaced by an old school smilie because that is set as a custom emoji converted from my old phpBB board. I would rather it be replaced with a modern emoji though. 

In my custom emoji pane I have all the converted emojis, what happens to the old posts that use them if I remove those? I want the old posts to either stay old school smilies or turn into modern emojis, is that what will happen, should I just delete both these sets? 

 

[Nathan Explosion]

45 minutes ago, Jamynee said:

should I just delete both these sets? 

Deleting them will result in the images no longer being there, and therefore older posts will not display them - no conversion will take place.

Your use-case is one of the reasons I created the following:

 

[David N.]

31 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said:

Deleting them will result in the images no longer being there, and therefore older posts will not display them - no conversion will take place.

Thank you for your reply.

So instead of smilies we'll just see the actual text (colon and parenthesis)? 

Is there no way to keep the old smilies and from now on have (colon and parenthesis) turn into a new modern emoji? 

[Nathan Explosion]

10 minutes ago, Jamynee said:

So instead of smilies we'll just see the actual text (colon and parenthesis)? 

You will see a dead image.

11 minutes ago, Jamynee said:

Is there no way to keep the old smilies and from now on have (colon and parenthesis) turn into a new modern emoji? 

Not natively, no. Hence the resource I created.

[David N.]

Ok thanks Nathan, that's too bad. I'll have a look at your plug-in. 

[Nathan Explosion]

7 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said:

Not natively, no.

In the interest of fairness, there actually may be a way...simply changing the short code of the old emoticon to something else would mean that your example will be an emoji going forward. But then you still have the custom emoticon in the listing, available or use. You could remove the emoji button from the editor and rely on just type/search in the editor then.

Ultimately though, want them gone without affecting old content then the resource listed will allow you to disable the old ones from being viewed in the menu.

Edited October 8, 2022 by Nathan Explosion

[David N.]

5 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said:

In the interest of fairness, there actually may be a way...simply changing the short code of the old emoticon to something else would mean that your example will be an emoji going forward. But then you still have the custom emoticon in the listing, available or use.

Oh great, thanks a lot for that answer, that helps. 😄 

7 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said:

You could remove the emoji button from the editor and rely on just type/search in the editor then.

Why would I remove the emoji button? I mean, I don't mind that the old "converted" smilies are still offered (all the way down at the very bottom of the emoji button pop-up menu), the only thing that matters is that if someone types a colon and a parenthesis it gets converted into a new modern emoji and not the old classic smilie. I believe your solution of changing the short code of the old smilie achieves that though, so thanks again. 😄

[SeNioR-]

19 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said:

You will see a dead image.

Unless he makes a copy of the emoticons directory first, removes the emoticons from ACP and uploads the copy of the emoticons directory.

Edited October 8, 2022 by SeNioR-

[Nathan Explosion]

There you go - he is now armed with the options.

[David N.]

Awesome, thanks guys for providing different options for achieving what I want (and even more with that plug-in). 😄

[David N.]

12 minutes ago, SeNioR- said:

Unless he makes a copy of the emoticons directory first, removes the emoticons from ACP and uploads the copy of the emoticons directory.

Wait... so I was going to do this but in the end, I deleted the two sets of classic emojis from my ACP and that took care of it: the emoticons directory stays in place, the old posts continue showing the old classic emoticons, but the shortcuts now create the new modern emojis. 

[Nathan Explosion]

Interesting - it used to blat the images out. Good stuff.

[David N.]

Wait, I cleared my system cache and then the images were gone. Ok good thing I had a backup. I uploaded it as @SeNioR- suggested and all is well.