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By: WordCast » WordCast 60: Smilies’ Cleaning Service

WordCast » WordCast 60: Smilies’ Cleaning Service — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:24:34 +0000

[...] The Great Smiley Debate [...]

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:52:47 +0000

@matt mcinvale - I see where you're getting at quoting what I said but in that quote, I said EVERYTHING. In this instance, I believe something like this would be worthy of community feeback first before a final decision was made.

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:50:17 +0000

@Ryan - Pretty sure which means they did end up in core most likely for WordPress 2.9. But I don't think we'll see them in 2.9 and instead, see a plugin with alternative icon sets.

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Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:02:35 +0000

[...] The Great Smiley Debate [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:54:03 +0000

Were the new smilies only included in trunk? I just tried adding a smiley to a 2.8.1 installation and it just showed the crappy old smileys.

By: matt mcinvale

matt mcinvale — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:20:20 +0000

Jeffro;

Personally, I like having one person or a select few who guide the project along. I think if everything revolving around WordPress were community driven, it would actually hold the project back.

http://www.wptavern.com/listener-poll-is-wordpress-a-community-run-project

By: Theme Playground | What the WordPress community can focus on, besides GPL

Theme Playground | What the WordPress community can focus on, besides GPL — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:56:24 +0000

[...] course I’m joking. Except for the smiley thing. And of course MIchael Jackson is all over the place. Wow. At least I don’t care what [...]

By: that girl again

that girl again — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:12:20 +0000

Unfortunately, we on .com are still exactly where we were, stuck with a set of replacement smilies that nobody bothered to ask or warn us about, and content whose meaning has been subtly altered by the substitution of another emoticon (an eyeroll is NOT a raspberry, unless you are particularly socially challenged); twiddling our thumbs until somebody can code a fix for something that wasn’t broken.

To replace our smilies, we would have to edit every individual post containing them; and even then, we’re stuck with what we’re given in comments. If nothing else, it’s been a salutary reminder that you can’t consider your content your own unless you’re hosting it yourself.

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:13:30 +0000

@matt mcinvale - I thought about taking that attitude but that would be wrong. The issue which goes deeper beyond the surface is how these images ended up in core. If we took this kind of attitude towards everything dealing with WordPress, I think we would be in a sad state of affairs. It's not that I don't trust the judgment calls by the core commiters, just that I think there was a better decision or way of going about it.

By: matt mcinvale

matt mcinvale — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:30:08 +0000

they’re just images, replace them after you install and be done.