some suggestions

[Moonzy]

1) is there a way to stop : ( from turning into an emoji automatically?

 

2) is it hard to implement a way to paste image from gboard's emoji gif thingy? says forum doesnt support it even though i can paste image just fine

[JohnDeereBro]

For number 1, I don't know how to fix it, but it is very annoying when I am trying to do the big smile : ) and I get this

[colonel_mortis]

Why do you want to type :( or :) rather than or ?

 

As for gboard gifs, I'll look into it, but my cursory searching suggests that it's a gboard thing rather than anything we can control.

[Moonzy]

25 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

Why do you want to type :( or :) rather than or ?

i feel like they convey different emotions, compared to the ascii versions

 

edit:

also, this

[colonel_mortis]

I've dug into it and it looks like neither of these (emoticons and gboard) are things that I will be able to control (they would need changes by IPS and Google respectively), sorry. As a super hacky workaround, I used a zero-width space to type the emoticons in my post, but that is not very easy to enter so probably won't really help you.

[pythonmegapixel]

I feel like depending on how you look at it,  appears like someone who was either tasted a really terrible bite of food, or is meditating with their eyes shut.

 

It's a completely different meaning to :(, which means "sad" and nothing else.

 

By the way @Moonzy you can use the same workaround for typing text emoticons as for that weird bug in links in Firefox - type your emoticon, start a new line, write the rest of your post, then delete to put everything back on the same line.