Maybe if you’re used to other platforms that do it. But I don’t. I’m used to (). There’s also no communication about this change, they just changed it. Of course it’s easy enough to adapt and not important at all, hence the “mildly” in this community.
I can see why it might be annoying for you, but yknow, nothing would change if u were afraid to upset any of your customers. Besides I’d argue more people would have been midlyinfuriated with () than :: .
I don’t use Microsoft Teams, but there may be some kind of macro software that can just expand “(thumbsup)” to “:thumbsup:” if you feel strongly about it.
Seems like an improvement imo.
Yeah, isn’t the latter more standard?
Maybe if you’re used to other platforms that do it. But I don’t. I’m used to (). There’s also no communication about this change, they just changed it. Of course it’s easy enough to adapt and not important at all, hence the “mildly” in this community.
I can see why it might be annoying for you, but yknow, nothing would change if u were afraid to upset any of your customers. Besides I’d argue more people would have been midlyinfuriated with () than :: .
As someone whose work requires using Teams, yeah I was annoyed by the parentheses and pleased when they started using colons.
I don’t use Microsoft Teams, but there may be some kind of macro software that can just expand “(thumbsup)” to “:thumbsup:” if you feel strongly about it.