Emojis not working

arso1er

Hi,
I have installed nodebb v1.7.0 and out of the box, emoticons are not working. When I try adding one, all I see is the code, not the actual emoticon (for example :somecodehere:).
I installed nodebb on a 512MB digitalocean droplet.
Could someone help me out?

PitaJ

Can you check and make sure nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended is installed and activated? Also, check the NodeBB logs for errors.

arso1er

Both nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended and nodebb-plugin-emoji-one are installed and activated. The logs show no error.
When I want to add emoticons in composer, I don't see previews of said emoticons, just a bunch of :somecode:

PitaJ

Can you post the output of ./nodebb plugins

arso1er

Sure.

Here is an example of my issue by the way.

PitaJ

I believe there's a way to rebuild the emoji stuff, that may be what you need to do

arso1er

Well, how can I rebuild it then?

PitaJ

Look through the admin page for the emoji

arso1er

I went to Plugins => Emoji Extended and toyed a little with settings but nothing resolved the issue.

arso1er

After many hours trying to solve this, I gave up and did a fresh installation on another droplet and it worked.

The thing I don't understand is on my old droplet, even and re-installation didn't solve anything. I'm concerned about this because I may face this issue in the future and doing everything from scratch on another droplet won't always be a viable solution.

Anyway, thanks @PitaJ for spending time helping me.

PitaJ

In the future, nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended will be deprecated in favor of nodebb-plugin-emoji v2, so these problems will hopefully not occur any more.

MehrazarDev

@arso1er Hi there, I don't know whether your problem is as same as mine or not. But you can see this issue on github:

Problem with emojis · Issue #6074 · NodeBB/NodeBB

NodeBB version: 1.7.0 NodeBB git hash: master version Database type: mongo Database version: 3.2 Exact steps to cause this issue: Post a comment in topic What you expected: See no problem. What happened instead: I see emoji, but you can ...

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