New smilies!
Smilies are just a shortcut to embedding an image in your post, there's nothing to stop you from making some smily-style pictures yourself, hosting them somewhere, and using them as such. Just look at what PhiloticKnight is doing with the old forum's yellow smilies.
Why not start a collection of such images on ParagonWiki?
Issue 16 made me feel like this.
Warning: This poster likes to play Devil's Advocate.

Because I'm lazy.
I'm glad we've finally switched forums, and I can see that you must have gone to pains to find emoticons that looked just like the old ones (though more colourful) so they keep their meanings. However- 11 smilies isn't really much for a board this big, is it? Especially with the... eccentric tendencies of people around here.
We don't need hundreds of smiley thingies, but some more specialised ones would be nice. Suggestions include:
I've been on forums like this with hundreds of nice smilies for every occasion, there's no excuse now!