Show HN: Emoji usage on Reddit
badcode.pro
badcode.pro
Something's up here. That subreddit requires users to post emojis.
10.0.4.15:6379> get "total_comments:NatureIsFuckingLit"
"57"
It's clear that a lot of times, people (me included), rely on very tiny details of an emoji to express our emotions accurately - this is lost by a huge margin once you have different interpretations of the same emoji. Heck, even when Apple changed the look & feel of the emoji on iOS >=10, I had a hard time using some of them, because they would not express precisely the same emotion / meaning that they used to do.
The few times I do use it, I just pick some random color with no thought put into it.
That said, a lot of people are using emojis every day in their communication... seems pretty normal that they'd use them in domains as well, right?
Many use memes and photos in their communication daily too, so should we have picture domains? www.[some bitmap in base64].com?
This unicode domains come with many hazards (phishing, domain hacking, different characters w/ identical form) and inconveniencies (input, blind people not seeing the emoji) and are provided just for the ohs and wows without any concrete benefit to balance these problems.
Except for, you know, being able to have a domain in your naive script, which some of the billions of speakers of languages with non-Latin orthographies might like to do.
Unicode domains are nice, because it's always frustrating to have to misspell words just to make them fit within ASCII for no good reason (other than technical) but it really should have been handled in a better way, both on the technical side (punycode is ugly and scary for everyone) and the administrative side (it's actually not that difficult to handle phishing or to semi-automatically attribute domains with accents to the existing owners of the equivalent domains without accents, for example, at least for most European languages).
Later browsers decided to show punycode in the URL bar instead of the decoded value in an effort to fight phishing until "they have a better solution". e.g.
But this is no good, as in many cases accented and not-accented words mean different things. In italian àncora means anchor and ancòra means still, why would àncora.it (say a big company producing naval anchors) get the rights to own also ancòra.it (which could be an interesting name for a blog, a political journal, etc.)?
I think most of them should be caught by it if not all, at least the new skintone-stacking ones worked.
TL;DR: follow these instructions and you'll get decent emoji support system-wide (albeit black-and-white outside Firefox): https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font#install-on-lin...
However... it needs python on windows, which for complicated reasons I can;t do on this machine... is there a font merger thing that doesn't need python ?
OP maybe you could put some content behind a dropdown selector or something?