I like that the forum is starting to gain a bit more functionality but I agree that I don't like the new emoticons. I used to use this one ->   a lot but now it just looks creepy.

My biggest complaint is the formatting issues. It seems like trying to add spaces between paragraphs either results in no paragraphs (just a giant wall of text) or huge spaces in-between.

Also, there's a bug (unless it's been fixed already) on the mobile version of the forum where you can not click "submit" after the warning comes up asking if you're sure you want to offend everybody.