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Different emojis on posts in app? Or am I being trolled?

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HoboHotel · 16/02/2023 22:57

See here

www.mumsnet.com/talk/relationships/4743096-marriage-or-child-first-deadlock?reply=123963522&utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

Bickering between me and another poster. She claims my post had flowers at the end and has posted a screenshot showing that.

I posted a 'hmm' face and have also posted my screenshot showing it.

Is the other poster involved in a weirdly elaborate bluff, or does MN somehow show different emojis for different users??

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drinkallthecoffee · 22/02/2023 17:51

I've come here from the other thread. I saw the flowers.

This wasn't the case for you but I often notice emojis change to something mentioned in the post. So I'll wonder why a poster has used the football emoji but it's because they mentioned the word football in their post. Same has happened with the bike emoji. It's very odd. This is on android app.

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HoboHotel · 17/02/2023 15:21

JoMumsnet · 17/02/2023 14:00

Oh OP can you also please confirm if you're using an iPhone or android? We know you've said you're on the mobile site but just wanted to check which device. Thanks in advance. Flowers

(Flowers! ^^)

Last night I was looking at the mobile site on an Android phone. I don't have the app.

I'm now on a laptop on Chrome, and can confirm I see the smiley face.

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AllThingsServeTheBeam · 17/02/2023 14:11

Sorry! This one

Different emojis on posts in app? Or am I being trolled?
AllThingsServeTheBeam · 17/02/2023 14:10

JoMumsnet · 17/02/2023 14:02

Oh no, really?! And that's on the android app, yes?

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It is indeed.

Different emojis on posts in app? Or am I being trolled?
LemonJuiceFromConcentrate · 17/02/2023 14:04

So weird! Following out of curiosity

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JoMumsnet · 17/02/2023 14:02

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 17/02/2023 13:59

I'm seeing flowers!

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Oh no, really?! And that's on the android app, yes?

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JoMumsnet · 17/02/2023 14:00

Oh OP can you also please confirm if you're using an iPhone or android? We know you've said you're on the mobile site but just wanted to check which device. Thanks in advance. Flowers

(Flowers! ^^)

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 17/02/2023 13:59

JoMumsnet · 17/02/2023 13:53

Hi @HoboHotel - thanks for flagging this to us. We're taking a closer look and will be back with an update as soon as we can. Smile

(^^That's a smiley face, by the way. Hopefully that's what you're seeing too...)

I'm seeing flowers!

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JoMumsnet · 17/02/2023 13:53

Hi @HoboHotel - thanks for flagging this to us. We're taking a closer look and will be back with an update as soon as we can. Smile

(^^That's a smiley face, by the way. Hopefully that's what you're seeing too...)

InBerlin · 17/02/2023 08:28

Keeps happening to me too. Stopped using them.

picklemewalnuts · 17/02/2023 08:26

My android phone, in wottsapp, the 🙏🏻 emoji looks more like 🙇‍♀️ on the keyboard.

I need the 🙏🏻 quite often, and have to remember which 🙇‍♀️ to use.

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 17/02/2023 08:21

AlmostSummer21 · 17/02/2023 08:18

@AllThingsServeTheBeam

its not an MN thing though, it's much bigger than that, I've had it happen on WhatsApp. As well as the issue that Apple & android can display the same emoticons differently.

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Never known it anywhere else to my knowledge. If my phone can't display an emoji it comes up as and x in a little box

AlmostSummer21 · 17/02/2023 08:18

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 16/02/2023 23:11

I'm moved on. As I said on the thread.

But it would be a bit shit if you put flowers on a post about something sad and the op saw a laughing face. So it does need to be looked into I feel

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@AllThingsServeTheBeam

its not an MN thing though, it's much bigger than that, I've had it happen on WhatsApp. As well as the issue that Apple & android can display the same emoticons differently.

VerityUnreasonble · 16/02/2023 23:30

The android app is always a bit odd tbh. I use it out of stubbornness. It's desperate for some updates though.

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HoboHotel · 16/02/2023 23:22

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 16/02/2023 23:21

Phew. Thought I was going barmey

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I shall extract the flowers from my arse then.

MN should investigate this. What a totally bizarre and potentially quite problematic glitch.

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AllThingsServeTheBeam · 16/02/2023 23:21

YewandOak · 16/02/2023 23:17

On the app on my android,it's flowers but here on my pc I see a little face

Phew. Thought I was going barmey

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 16/02/2023 23:20

HoboHotel · 16/02/2023 23:17

I have forgotten what it was about, as i am far more interested in this 😁

For the avoidance of doubt, that was a GRIN.

see, I rely on emojis to give tone and context to my posts, and now I don't trust them any more.

Flowers on my post would have been far more odd/inflammatory than a sceptical expression. It was a fairly trivial dispute in this instance, but another time it might not be.

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I can confirm that that has shown up as a grin

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HoboHotel · 16/02/2023 23:18

YewandOak · 16/02/2023 23:17

On the app on my android,it's flowers but here on my pc I see a little face

Aaaaahhhh. Thank you for confirming. What the hell is going on with that?!

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HoboHotel · 16/02/2023 23:17

TinpotNostradamus · 16/02/2023 23:11

I love that you both have had a break from the barny to post on here, its like MN version of the Christmas Day football match.

I have forgotten what it was about, as i am far more interested in this 😁

For the avoidance of doubt, that was a GRIN.

see, I rely on emojis to give tone and context to my posts, and now I don't trust them any more.

Flowers on my post would have been far more odd/inflammatory than a sceptical expression. It was a fairly trivial dispute in this instance, but another time it might not be.

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YewandOak · 16/02/2023 23:17

On the app on my android,it's flowers but here on my pc I see a little face

Trinxsy · 16/02/2023 23:15

I use the app on iPhone. I've been confused a few times

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HoboHotel · 16/02/2023 23:15

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 16/02/2023 23:11

I'm moved on. As I said on the thread.

But it would be a bit shit if you put flowers on a post about something sad and the op saw a laughing face. So it does need to be looked into I feel

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Yes, exactly!

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HoboHotel · 16/02/2023 23:14

AlmostSummer21 · 16/02/2023 23:09

I see your wee face!

this does happen from time to time.

both of you should just move on.

I'm not fighting with the @AllThingsServeTheBeam - not at all. I'm genuinely interested and slightly shocked to know that this can happen.

Interesting that @Trinxsy says she has encountered this issue before. Is that using the app? I'm on my phone but looking at the mobile website, not the app.

It is not a big deal in this case, but I find it weird that it can happen. It was only because the other poster was so adamant that I wanted to find out (without further derailing the thread).

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MillicentTrilbyHiggins · 16/02/2023 23:13

I see the face

PriamFarrl · 16/02/2023 23:12

I see the hmmm face.

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