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Also, in slack an emoji response doesn't need to be cleared (so it doesn't count toward a notification count). That is what got me on board.
And if you send a message that's only + , slack will use it as a reaction on the immediately preceding message
Did you know ? Eastern europeans end words (without space) with singles characters "(" and ")" to indicate full smileys. Only themselves understand each others and they dont tell anyone about it)))
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I've never heard emoticons referred to as emoji, mainly because people don't use emoticons anymore (unless they still post on forums). It seems like a deliberate editorial decision. I would prefer to preserve the distinction, however, for reasons GP stated.
I use emoticons when texting (because I'm a graybeard), but my phone translates them into emojis before sending. So I've just taken to calling them all emojis.
Emotions were the little images you could place amongst text in MSN Messenger.
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How is this possible? I thought HN stripped emojis.
It's the “black heart suit”.
Emojis in written text can lose their meaning in translation. Your intended meaning may not be what your audience understands, but I guess that’s inherent in most communication. I had a bunch of russian coworkers once, and one of them would constantly type “)))” any time I asked him a question. I thought it was some weird cyrillic keyboard quirk and never paid it any mind, until I learned it’s the approximate russian…
`vlad: )`
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I use emoticons when texting (because I'm a graybeard), but my phone translates them into emojis before sending. So I've just taken to calling them all emojis.
Do you mean you use smileys like :) :( :P ? Emotions were the little images you could place amongst text in MSN Messenger.
Did you know ? Eastern europeans end words (without space) with singles characters "(" and ")" to indicate full smileys. Only themselves understand each others and they dont tell anyone about it)))
Why eastern europeans in particular? Is it somehow related to slavic languages? Now I'm curious
In Poland we just use the US keyboard layout so that's not a problem. I assume it's similar for other non-cyrillic slavic languages.
I’m starting to think that Hacker News is on the wrong side of history on this one. Without the emotional channel, we make more misunderstandings, which leads to more hostile posts. Emoji are becoming a permanent part of written language. I don’t want to see a post full of emoji either, but perhaps a filter that allows one emoji per 20 words would work. Perhaps using a font with black line or grayscale emoji?
For me at least, seeing emoji makes me even more uncertain about the meaning of the message.
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> The irony of using the normative "should" to project your preferences onto Firefox, while expressing a desire that Firefox not do so on you. Firefox is not a person, why should it have "preferences"? It's a tool. Tools should be used because they're useful, not because they "prefer to be used."
It could be argued that the user above chose to use Firefox. They chose to use this in their minds inferior tool or a tool with an undesirable feature. They made that decision. > A bad workman always blames his tools –Old proverb