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The merits of an emoji referral code

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Re: The merits of an emoji referral code

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Better is the enemy of good.

My grandma already has trouble finding characters like # on her keyboard, I can't wait till I have to spend time on the phone with her guiding her to the emoji she needs.

Does anyone know what the state is of screen readers, braille readers, and other accessibility tools when it comes to emoji?

Re: The merits of an emoji referral code

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post #11

Better is the enemy of good. My grandma already has trouble finding characters like # on her keyboard, I can't wait till I have to spend time on the phone with her guiding her to the emoji she needs. Does anyone know what the state is of screen readers, braille readers, and other accessibility tools when it comes to emoji?

I don't know the actual state of it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were easy for screen readers to interpret emoji, since you just have to have it read out the human-readable name accompanying the Unicode codepoint. You'd presumably get "for free" any new emoji that are added.

Re: The merits of an emoji referral code

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The ideal referral code is a clickable link. It's the same reason domain names are fading: friction from issues like being too easy to mistype, hard to remember, scammers etc. Most apps let you message or mail a referral link to a friend.

That doesn't work all that well on mobile apps, since users first have to download a new app before you can record the referral code. Having a link click persist through that process is nearly impossible.

Re: The merits of an emoji referral code

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post #10

The ideal referral code is a clickable link. It's the same reason domain names are fading: friction from issues like being too easy to mistype, hard to remember, scammers etc. Most apps let you message or mail a referral link to a friend.

That doesn't work all that well on mobile apps, since users first have to download a new app before you can record the referral code. Having a link click persist through that process is nearly impossible.

Make the link go to a web page with a "download app" link -- the app can start and look for a cookie left by the web page.

Or simply download the app and click again.

I'm not saying not to have user-readable ref codes (though emojis are a terrible choice -- you can't read them aloud), I'm saying make typing them the very rare case.

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