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New emojis in 2023-2024

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Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

#31

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> There have been some ridiculous inclusions in the past years despite more obvious candidates that are still missing. Well, obvious missing to you . That's probably why it will always expand, no one will agree on when it's done, including you. ;)

I use Emojis for my gardening site as icons for taxonomical families. So I would welcome some berries and maybe more vegetables.

Have you heard of this thing called an image?

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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post #5

I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough, or will continue adding more until every word in the dictionary is an emoji. There have been some ridiculous inclusions in the past years despite more obvious candidates that are still missing. The great thing about emoji used to be the constraints, which made for a clear overview of available emoji and made people use the limited set in creative w…

> I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough,

Really hard to do by this time. Since they allowed so many it's harder to say no. They have a burrito, but why no kebap, yet? They have person's playing basketball or golfing, but no person playing football (any variant) putting a stop to it gives an arbitrary set and restricts representing develoment in society (they have kick scooters which are modern, but what about the future successor?)

But of course, the more they add the harder it is to use. These new directional ones can be hidden as variants similar to skin color etc is currently handled in UIs, but individual ones ...

Deprecating also isn't an option. Text using those exists. They can't really break it.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

#33
post #16

I just want the sicilian flag in :( The rip off of the isle of man is in, but not sicily :(

It looks like, at least for the time being, the Unicode Consortium isn't accepting any new flag emoji.[0] While I don't necessarily support their position I can understand it. The amount of international pressure to support or oppose the recognition of some flags (e.g. Republic of China AKA Taiwan, Tibet, Crimea, Kosovo, Abkhazia etc.) is likely substantial.

[0] https://blog.unicode.org/2022/03/the-past-and-future-of-flag...

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

#34

I'd be delighted if the deep fried version of "crying laughing emoji" were to become a thing: "open eye crying laughing emoji" To me it signifies something that holds the middle between glee, hysterical laughter and psychotic rage. Unicode really misses a codepoint with this specific energy, in my opinion. [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/open-eye-crying-laughing-emoj...

I know it won't happen because of course it won't, but in general I feel as though the world would be better if corporations were more unhinged when it comes to design. Un-deprecate , use images with non-transparent backgrounds, really just go for it.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

#35
post #5

I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough, or will continue adding more until every word in the dictionary is an emoji. There have been some ridiculous inclusions in the past years despite more obvious candidates that are still missing. The great thing about emoji used to be the constraints, which made for a clear overview of available emoji and made people use the limited set in creative w…

> I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough, or will continue adding more until every word in the dictionary is an emoji. Emojis, like language, is social and will continue to change.

It’s unlike language because words can fluidly be invented or fall out of use. Emoji is designed by a committee. If it expands to include everything it will just be unusable. Why not just use pictures at that point anyway?

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

#36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Emojis for my gardening site as icons for taxonomical families. So I would welcome some berries and maybe more vegetables.

Have you heard of this thing called an image?

Emojis are great as quick icons that take zero work to source, add in, align with text in the layout and size consistently.

Absolutely nothing wrong with that, especially since people on hn love to complain about inclusion of unnecessary assets in websites that could be more lightweight.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Emojis for my gardening site as icons for taxonomical families. So I would welcome some berries and maybe more vegetables.

Have you heard of this thing called an image?

Looked it up, "image" sounds just like Emoji but with extra steps, annoying.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

#38
post #5

I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough, or will continue adding more until every word in the dictionary is an emoji. There have been some ridiculous inclusions in the past years despite more obvious candidates that are still missing. The great thing about emoji used to be the constraints, which made for a clear overview of available emoji and made people use the limited set in creative w…

> I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough, Really hard to do by this time. Since they allowed so many it's harder to say no. They have a burrito, but why no kebap, yet? They have person's playing basketball or golfing, but no person playing football (any variant) putting a stop to it gives an arbitrary set and restricts representing develoment in society (they have kick scooters which are…

Welcome to the world where every idiosyncrasy is considered an identity worth representing, through emojis or other means, generating a never-ending breakdown of people into groups that feel excluded.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

#39
post #5

I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough, or will continue adding more until every word in the dictionary is an emoji. There have been some ridiculous inclusions in the past years despite more obvious candidates that are still missing. The great thing about emoji used to be the constraints, which made for a clear overview of available emoji and made people use the limited set in creative w…

Skin color emojis are the weirdest thing. I always find it slightly odd if someone changed them from the default yellow. Why would one care?

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

#40
I get the fenix as it is a whole different concept than a bird.

But why exactly do we need a different color of mushroom? Isn't that just threading too lightly?

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