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Comment by fragmede | Hacker News Reader

HN's emoji stripper is intentional. some are supported, eg; ↖↙↗↘

but others are not, so we're reduced to using things like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to communicate

I don't feel like emoji add anything substantial to a textual conversation, it's mostly useless fluff. I don't miss it on HN, so I disagree with your use of "reduced" here. :)

> I don't feel like emoji add anything substantial to a textual conversation

Proceeds to add an ascii emoji <facepalm>

Am I the only person who still calls "ASCII emoji" "emoticons"?

No, you're not. :) Emoticons aren't emoji.

What would an emoji provide over that ascii combo?

Variety and reduced ambiguity.

Immediate understanding from across the room without needing to read a paragraph

Nuance

The opposite of nuance because the image renders differently for different browsers/platforms so you can only assume a very vague meaning.

I agree on the assuming and the vagueness. Kids these days feel that the thumbs up emoji is like a passive aggressive middle finger, same with a green checkbox -- and they are apparently bothered by the ellipsis too while we are at it -- not understanding that it is totally valid punctuation and what it can represent. The fact that these individuals are absolutely wrong comes from the pictograms being vague.

you're entitled to your own opinion, but text lacks tone, and emoji helps bring some of it back so I don't see it as useless fluff

I see what you did there :LOL:

       _           _                         __ _       _      _
      (_)_   _ ___| |_    _   _ ___  ___    / _(_) __ _| | ___| |_
      | | | | / __| __|  | | | / __|/ _ \  | |_| |/ _` | |/ _ \ __|
      | | |_| \__ \ |_   | |_| \__ \  __/  |  _| | (_| | |  __/ |_
     _/ |\__,_|___/\__|   \__,_|___/\___|  |_| |_|\__, |_|\___|\__|
    |__/                                          |___/

https://repology.org/project/figlet/versions

Pretty sure it's because Emojis are Unicode and HN only supports ASCII.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524948

你确定马？

I love that I didn't have to translate this to know what it said

I don't know how you got that idea but it's completely wrong.

HN allows 99% of Unicode.

Well how would they filter out emojis? My assumption is, that they're doing it by exluding Unicode code points for all emojis.

> My assumption is, that they're doing it by exluding Unicode code points for all emojis.

Yes? The code points of emojis are excluded by HN.

Try it yourself with characters of different types! Ones that are neither ASCII (including builtin html entities, sure) nor emoji.

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