It's a hit or miss issue and it's seemingly only happening on certain emoji / smilies. We were able to break it down to a known issue and are hoping to get it taken care of ASAP. Thank you for your patience, understanding, and testing.
wonder if that problem exists elsewhere.. most of the time I stick to the simple emoji I can type myself (the basics)
I know the selection changes depending on browser too, or they did when I tested them elsewhere. Some of them may not exist... i did report that at time but well, that forum was new and so much was happening that one more error from me was overlooked (I have found so many, I can understand it).
I just tested it and it does still happen on my laptop (both Firefox and Chrome), but I don't use a lot of smilies and visit the forum mostly on my phone nowadays, where the smilies do work normally.
Yeap I get the same issue and with pretty much all listings in the smilies. I tried nearly all emojies in every category, same thing happens when you try to add text before the smilies.
asdasd d asdasd 😠 asdasd a a
^ Test run done with a space between the emoji and text. If the space is missing before and after the emoji, the emoji disappears.
it is a fine line between having emoji working and having them appear randomly in quote text when it accidentally has the combo that matches a emoji but actually isn't. I do see the 2nd a lot.
I only use basic emoji so I haven't seen this behaviour before.