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All these features infested with emojis and negative space makes SourceHut such a refreshing take at UX/UI that is utilitarian, straightforward, ultra-functional and zero-tolerance for trendy-designer-bullshit. Exactly what engineering tools should be like. Unfortunately, I am in the minority here and most people find the UX/UI of Sourcehut ancient, unadorned and bland - IMO that’s a feature, not a bug. Check it out: https://sourcehut.org/

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Kind of a salty take on it. Personally, I appreciate the emojis, they allow a more dense information transfer when used correctly, like when reacting to a chat message.

Similarly, with Github Discussions, each emoji has a distinct meaning and can convey the topic with many less pixels. Ex, I can use a as a replacement for "Feature request", as a replacement for "Bug/Issue", and for "Vulnerability".

Now if you start shoving them as the only way to communicate something, there's your problem.

FYI, HN strips certain unicode that it thinks are emoji.

Strongly disagree and I've noticed this is a common trait amongst developers. I think it stems from the fact they are more comfortable on the CLI and are used to poor interfaces that they more easily justify a sub-par UX. Just look at how many HN "readers" are out there because this site subscribes to the same philosophy

Mild disagree. Emoji aren't that bad, and certainly have their uses; however, most of the time they look dramatically different than the surrounding text, and can be quite distracting. If they're trying to communicate something important, that works fine, but often the important stuff is buried in the text, and the emoji simply hurt the readability.

Also, there's an issue sometimes whereby people who have nothing worthwhile to say thing that adding a few emoji will now make their message worthwhile...

Hacker News readers exist mostly because this site’s users tend to skew heavily towards people who would make such things.

I agree with you.

Imagine that this comment were my only contribution to this message thread. Imagine that ten other people commented the same because the community was very engaged. Now, imagine that pattern of commenting across every discussion.

Would an emoticon have been better?

Does SourceHut support other change workflows than just email patches or has anyone else integrated such? (i.e a "PR" style module, Gerrit, etc.)

I might argue there is no UI/UX being presented on sourcehut, just the presentation of data in different colors and some buttons. Maybe that's a feature, less is more, I can certainly appreciate it, but the GitHub UI is good and it's why nearly everyone is copying it, like the visibility feature on sr.st.

Sourcehut is still in alpha and I cannot trust it until it's out otherwise.

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