Flarum emojis still broken?

WetGeek It used to display the emoji images, not their identifiers.

Oddly, it still does, but it's picky about when it does and doesn't. This is the result of selecting that emoji inserter on an existing message (just now).

If someone could explain how to get it to work like this at all times, it would be worth a couple of "heart" emojis, for sure. Maybe even a slice of cake. It seems to work correctly when using it to comment on an existing post, but not within the editor while creating a new one.

[deleted] Like it says, "Type to search for an emoji"

I appreciate the additional information, but in the past the emoji picker (in the editor) displayed emojis. I wish it still did. The current version of it is cumbersome and requires an additional step on the part of the user. Not being able to see what emojis are available, how can we know what to ask for? I call that "broken."

Are you implying that it's now working as intended, and will never be fixed?

Staudey it would be nice to have a choice of common ones

Indeed. As a Plasma user, I have the Emoji Selector utility, and other DEs probably have an equivalent, or can install one. But that solution also involves more steps: locate the utility, launch it, select an emoji and click to put it in the clipboard, close the utility and finally, paste it in the message.

Thanks for including those links to previous threads. I'm sure I read them at the time, but I was left with the impression that this was not permanent. Obviously, my recollection was flawed--I've been waiting for a fix. That's a bit of bother to insert one character into a message. I'm sure many wouldn't bother with that.

But it's better than trying to remember which emoji to ask for with the present system.