I thought this was a cool idea so I tried to add a mailbox with an emoji username to my protonmail account - no bueno. Invalid username. Boo!
I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
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Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
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Also found a comment from myself warning of using this anywhere near Germany (tldr kz stands for concentration camp). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26423117
> never use abbrevations like SS, NS, AH, HH, HJ in Germany Very true, also for Austria. When I was in the military and we got our Steyr AUG A1 we had to know the serial number by heart so we could find our gun when mixed up. We also had to report our serial number when asked by instructors. Mine started with "HJ18" which was by random chance but always wondered why these wouldn't be taken out before production becau…
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Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#63This was fun.
I feel they missed a truck not calling the service Emailji, which swaps just one syllable.
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HN's emoji stripper is intentional. some are supported, eg; ↖↙↗↘ but others are not, so we're reduced to using things like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to communicate
I don't feel like emoji add anything substantial to a textual conversation, it's mostly useless fluff. I don't miss it on HN, so I disagree with your use of "reduced" here. :)
> I don't feel like emoji add anything substantial to a textual conversation
Proceeds to add an ascii emoji
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN's emoji stripper is intentional. some are supported, eg; ↖↙↗↘ but others are not, so we're reduced to using things like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to communicate
Pretty sure it's because Emojis are Unicode and HN only supports ASCII. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524948
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Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty sure it's because Emojis are Unicode and HN only supports ASCII. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524948
I don't know how you got that idea but it's completely wrong. HN allows 99% of Unicode.
Well how would they filter out emojis? My assumption is, that they're doing it by exluding Unicode code points for all emojis.
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I don't know how you got that idea but it's completely wrong. HN allows 99% of Unicode.
Well how would they filter out emojis? My assumption is, that they're doing it by exluding Unicode code points for all emojis.
> My assumption is, that they're doing it by exluding Unicode code points for all emojis.
Yes? The code points of emojis are excluded by HN.
Try it yourself with characters of different types! Ones that are neither ASCII (including builtin html entities, sure) nor emoji.
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> never use abbrevations like SS, NS, AH, HH, HJ in Germany Very true, also for Austria. When I was in the military and we got our Steyr AUG A1 we had to know the serial number by heart so we could find our gun when mixed up. We also had to report our serial number when asked by instructors. Mine started with "HJ18" which was by random chance but always wondered why these wouldn't be taken out before production becau…
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Not in Austria. In Austria the age of consent is 16.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't feel like emoji add anything substantial to a textual conversation, it's mostly useless fluff. I don't miss it on HN, so I disagree with your use of "reduced" here. :)
> I don't feel like emoji add anything substantial to a textual conversation Proceeds to add an ascii emoji
What would an emoji provide over that ascii combo?
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#70>> Turns out emoji domain names score very highly for spam and were going to be blocked to high heaven. I turns out their mailbox.ws domain doesn't have SPF or good DKIM records. Might be part of the problem why google chucks it. Email is a shit show. I feel like getting emails out reliably is akin to black magic now. Without the right incantations your never going to know what happened or why.
Even Google struggles to apply these correctly 100% of the time:
google.com TOTAL SPF ALIGNED DKIM ALIGNED
209.85.167.49 3 100% 0%
209.85.218.47 3 100% 100%
209.85.167.43 2 100% 50%
209.85.208.44 2 100% 100%
26 more IPs 28 75% 92.8%