Oh no broken emojis!

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It seems some fraction of emojis rely on an external website which has been shut down by its new owners. As a consequence there's a broken image scattered about in a few posts.

Long story short, there's a workaround, see the phpBB support forum:

• Intermediate fix for emoji loading issues

While a new version that takes care of this is already in the works, you will most likely notice issues with pages taking longer to load and issues with the display of emojis

See for example this post

And see the HTML

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<img alt="😂" class="emoji smilies" draggable="false" src="//twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/svg/1f602.svg">

The fix is to patch the phpBB code for textformatter/s9e/factory.php in a couple of places.

Afterwards go to the ACP and purge the cache.

Once the next version of phpBB is released, you should be able to simple overwrite this file again. Preparations for the next release are already underway and it will be published as soon as possible.