What happened to the smileys?!

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curveball
curveball Member Posts: 3,040
edited June 2014 in Comments, Suggestions, Feature Requests


I just noticed the button to add a smiley to my comment has disappeared. First the ability to turn signatures on & off for individual comments went away, now no smileys. Oh and by the way the indent button still doesn't work! So now two buttons that used to work have been taken away, and a button that didn't work is there but still hasn't been fixed.


This is an upgrade?! :(

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  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited October 2013


    I know, we miss them too!! !They'll be back soon --- hopefully by tomorrow!!!!!!

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  • curveball
    curveball Member Posts: 3,040
    edited October 2013


    And the signature on/off switch? When is that coming back?

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  • mamasixtaz
    mamasixtaz Member Posts: 319
    edited October 2013


    Thanks curveball, I wondered why the smileys were gone! Mods please bring them back!

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited October 2013


    Still no smileys this morning :(

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  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited October 2013


    I know )-:

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  • curveball
    curveball Member Posts: 3,040
    edited October 2013


    Hey Mods,


    I noticed a few days ago the smileys are back, so thanks for that


    however, as you can see, the thumbs up and thumbs down are so pale colored they are hard to see. ThumbsDown


    Can you ask the technical wizards to darken them up a little?


    And now that the smileys are back, what's the ETA on the toggle switch to turn signature on/off in individual comments?

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited October 2013


    Thanks for returning the smilies, but you forgot a very important one: HUG! Seriously? This is the most common statement on BCO and we NEED a smilie to reflect that!

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  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited October 2013


    curveball, they're not done with the personalization project that's intended to refine a number of choices members can make about how info is displayed. We don't have a target date, but it's in the queue. We've asked to have the thumbs-up/down tweaked too!


    yorkiemom, for now the choice was to go with some off-the-shelf smilies to get them back for members, but we do have a wishlist of member-requested emoticons to follow, including those hugs!

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  • curveball
    curveball Member Posts: 3,040
    edited October 2013


    Is there a half-smiling half-frowning smiley on the wishlist? I think I might have requested it, and if I didn't I'm asking now. So many things that happen in Cancerworld are ambivalent that I think it would be really useful. What's more appropriate than a wry smile to put after statements like


    My Oncotype results came back really fast....right in the middle of the "gray area", so I still can't decide if I should do chemo or not---

    I'm glad I didn't ignore my "gut feeling" and pushed for a biopsy....because the pathologist found cancer---

    good thing I decided to have a bilateral....because the other side turned out not to be prophylactic after all--

    the latest tx really shrank my mets...but it has really bad side effects---


    and so on and so on and so on


    Oh and another thing (I'm releasing my inner hairsplitter tonight) when is the "indent" button going to produce an actual indent? It works in the entry box, but not in preview or when the post is submitted. Those four examples of comments that cry out for a wry smile are supposed to be indented. I also tried using a bulleted list or numbered list to set them off, and those buttons don't work either. Just out of curiosity, I checked, and the "align right" button does work, both in preview and after submitting the comment.


    And lastly, a request for future upgrades/personalization projects or whatever they're called....please don't remove the old feature until its replacement has been written, tested and is ready to go. And after it launches, get the bugs out of that one before starting on the next item. It's hard for me to think of something as an upgrade or improvement if it causes functions which used to be available to be lost for weeks or months at a time. Can the tech people do one thing (like new smilies) and get it working right before shutting off the next feature to be tweaked? If it's impossible to do that now can they make the site software modular as they do the current project, so that in the future it is possible to do one thing at a time?

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited November 2013

    Well, if you are still playing around with the emoticons, I would vote for some more like the ones we used to have. These are rather disturbingly demented....I am not sure what they are to portray?????

    Sick I have drunk some poison, or eaten spoiled food. Either way, I am about to throw up!

     LoopyI either hit my head against a wall and have a concussion, or I have sipped on way too much wine....or maybe one thing led to the other.....

     SnoozeSomeone has stabbed me in the head with a nail.

    WinkingWhy don't you come up and see me sometime, big boy?

    DevilI am both very horny AND very crabby.....perhaps I am a 50 Shades of Gray person?

    You catch my drift....which I would put a question face after if it didn't look like a leer.

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  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited November 2013


    Thank you, as always, for your thoughts.

    We're adding them to the list!

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  • nihahi
    nihahi Member Posts: 3,841
    edited November 2013


    I like the new emoticons!!! Just noticed the "thumbs" though. Mods....you do incredible work for us, thanks!

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  • farmerlucy
    farmerlucy Member Posts: 3,985
    edited November 2013


    Ruth - you're cracking me up!!!!

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