Wow they're working on really important and consequential things over there at Twitter under new management.
Couldn't you have made the same argument against changing it in the first place?
X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
My thoughts exactly. For all the hand wringing they did about cutting costs, their focus is on redesigning emojis? It's obvious to me that Elon doesn't actually care about making the service better and solving real problems (like boosting revenue or fixing problems that impact users).
What makes you think their “focus” is on emojis? This is probably just one among many things they’re doing. And it’s the right thing to do, because the political censorship of the pistol emoji is yet another example of how deeply biased tech companies have been in pushing their politics onto customers.
The gun emoji is used to make death threats etcetera. Why do you want that on a social media platform? It's not politics, it's just decency.
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#53Is it me or does that emoji look a little more like a Ruger SR9 than a Colt M1911?
I mean... it's not exactly a SR9 either, but it's definitely not a 1911 as the twitterrer implied.
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#54I wish that websites would stop overriding the emoji icons and just use the platform default.
Fun fact – Apple will reject your app for using emojis in an unapproved way, for example as a UI element, button or reaction. Default system emojis can only be used within regular text. For any other use you have to import your own versions and can't use Apple's.
>Apple will reject your app for using emojis in an unapproved way, for example as a UI element, button or reaction
Source? Signal seems to be using the native emojis for reacts, and they don't seem to be having issues.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
My thoughts exactly. For all the hand wringing they did about cutting costs, their focus is on redesigning emojis? It's obvious to me that Elon doesn't actually care about making the service better and solving real problems (like boosting revenue or fixing problems that impact users).
lmao you really think this took me more than 15 minutes to do?
Still 15 minutes fixing something that wasn't broken instead of generating revenue or cutting costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Edit - and another 10 defending the decision on HackerNews forums
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#57The fact that the emoji was "censored" to begin with is weird to me. But the internet is weird and now people will be getting banned from X for using gun emojis to promote political violence.
I found it alarming that the meaning of previous texts between many people could be altered by simply changing the glyph of an emote. And noone voted for it, all companies effectively in charge of these emojis (Google, Apple, etc.) decided for everyone that it was for the best. What will they change next, who initiated and coordinated that effort, and why, are all important questions. I'm very much against it. It's t…
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
What makes you think their “focus” is on emojis? This is probably just one among many things they’re doing. And it’s the right thing to do, because the political censorship of the pistol emoji is yet another example of how deeply biased tech companies have been in pushing their politics onto customers.
There's zero cost to leaving the emoji as it is. The designer of the new version claims he's still working on it , so I don't know how you can say it's not a "focus". It's a waste of time and money for purely ideological reasons.
The change to the water gun was for ideological reasons. This is returning to the original.
Without being the project manager, you're speculating on the amount of focus this had.
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#59Wow they're working on really important and consequential things over there at Twitter under new management.
You can work on little things and big things at the same time.
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#60A hundred years from now people are going to have a very... interesting time trying to figure out what meaning was intended by the use of these characters at the time a text was written.
Personally, I think putting a huge set of pictograms into the Universal Character Set was a mistake and that emojis should be deprecated immediately, and this is the #1 reason why: the meaning of a text should not normally change based on the font used to render it.