A suggestion

Not sure where to put suggestions exactly, but this seemed appropriate

The ability to press Backspace after an emoticon recently converted to an emoji to convert it back to an emoticon, or really ANY way to type emoticons without it converting to an emoji... It's very annoying that the fields seem to have absolutely no tolerance for emoticons, always converting them the moment they appear in text, including when a character is removed from the middle of them, even going to the point where I'm pretty sure they ignore zero-width characters for conversion... Sometimes it's preferable to have the actual emoticon for as it expresses something much different than this site's emoji

I agree, it should just be a toggle in the settings. If I remember correctly, Discord has something like this, where you can turn off auto-emoji when trying to type an emoticon.

Agreed! : D

There's solutions to that but it takes time and effort. :(

I don't have that lol

what are they?

You can write it really fast and click post. It works.

Still not a very permanent solution to the problem at hand...

:D

hey look it worked

still not great though

I whole heartedly agree, I hate that everytime I type"(;" it gets auto replaced with , like bro ita two completely different things

One thing that works is to rearrange so I stead of : ) its (: but imo chess should just make it toggleable

I type : D more than : ) so it's more of a problem for me

ig i just am too slow for that

At the very least :3 isn't affected. It's the one I use the most, anyway

some people try to convert :3 too and it's terrible

D:

I agree!