GMAIL got rid of its cool fucked up emoticons and put normal emoji..

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Larry Parrish: Jul 9, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Cold on a Cob posted:

but some of them are frowns not smiles do you call those frownies? also some look like poo do you call them your posties?

They;re called emoticons

# ? Jul 29, 2015 12:27

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Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

emoticons is also acceptable

emoji is not

(also whatever you call them they do not belong in unicode)

# ? Jul 29, 2015 13:16

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

they aren't even all emotion based though they really need a generic name

pictoji maybe

# ? Jul 29, 2015 13:29

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

clip art

# ? Jul 29, 2015 13:37

big scary monsters: Sep 2, 2011; -~Ｓｋｕｌｌｗａｖｅ~-

in 20 years we'll just call them "writing"

# ? Jul 29, 2015 15:00

big scary monsters: Sep 2, 2011; -~Ｓｋｕｌｌｗａｖｅ~-

or rather,

# ? Jul 29, 2015 15:03

Just-In-Timeberlake: Aug 18, 2003

poisoned pie posted:

mcfry you bojo

# ? Jul 29, 2015 15:47

PuTTY riot: Nov 16, 2002

Sweevo posted:

emoticons is also acceptable

emoji is not

(also whatever you call them they do not belong in unicode)

💩

# ? Jul 29, 2015 20:30

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

Sweevo posted:

emoticons is also acceptable

gender is not

(also whatever you call them they do not belong in unicode)

yospos gettin real prescriptivist itt

# ? Jul 29, 2015 20:45

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

lives on, live and in color on Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka's Something Awful Dot Com :chome:

# ? Jul 29, 2015 21:13

atomicthumbs: Dec 26, 2010; We're in the business of extending man's senses.

gmail's erasin' people's accounts too. back up your poo poo

i made a post about it on reddit which i will quote here

quote:

I just got a notification that Google had deleted an old account of mine (one which I still had emails in that I wanted to save) due to "a violation of our Terms of Service that was left unresolved."

I didn't receive any notification of a TOS violation, or any notification of any sort prior to this.

To top it off, it says "To attempt to restore access to the account, please visit our account recovery page immediately. Google Accounts can only be restored within a short period of time after deletion", but when I click the link to the recovery page, it just says that the account is no longer recoverable.

They sent the deletion notice at 1:51 AM. Presumably their timeframe for recovery is less than two hours, since that's when I got it.

A search of the Gmail help forums shows that this problem began in the past several days, and that there are dozens and dozens of people who have had their accounts deleted without warning. One is a senior who is now contemplating suicide because of the loss of their data. I didn't see anyone who had been successful in recovering their account, or who had heard back from Google at all.

The top contributors on the help forum (who can talk to Google employees) have stated they haven't heard anything back from Google about these deletions.

Fortunately, I didn't lose my primary account. Just in case they go further and delete it without warning, I've requested an archive link of all my Google account's data with Google Takeout. Hopefully my Gmail account stays intact so that I can get the link to it once it's ready.

It's probably a good idea to save your data in a secure place even if you don't think you're at risk here, because they're apparently doing this without rhyme, reason, or cause.

Edit: Google's terms of service haven't been changed recently, and none of the changes mention anything related to this issue.

a bunch of people in the reddit comments have had their accounts deleted too, including one guy's business account.

# ? Jul 29, 2015 21:14

Just-In-Timeberlake: Aug 18, 2003

atomicthumbs posted:

gmail's erasin' people's accounts too. back up your poo poo

i made a post about it on reddit which i will quote here

a bunch of people in the reddit comments have had their accounts deleted too, including one guy's business account.

p much wouldn't even notice if they did this to me

# ? Jul 29, 2015 21:22

Skarp: Sep 27, 2013

atomicthumbs posted:

gmail's erasin' people's accounts too. back up your poo poo

i made a post about it on reddit which i will quote here

a bunch of people in the reddit comments have had their accounts deleted too, including one guy's business account.

too many panda pics

# ? Jul 29, 2015 21:25

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

atomicthumbs posted:

gmail's erasin' people's accounts too. back up your poo poo

i made a post about it on reddit which i will quote here

a bunch of people in the reddit comments have had their accounts deleted too, including one guy's business account.

oh poo poo, this happened to me too just the other day :pwn:

it was a really old account which i'd forgotten existed, so i assumed i had used it for, idk, cyberbullying or something and deserved to have it closed

# ? Jul 29, 2015 21:50

salted hash browns: Mar 26, 2007; ykrop

i still have the old ones

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Skarp posted:

too many panda pics

it's only 1.4 gigs

# ? Jul 29, 2015 23:45

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