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Comment by Uehreka | Hacker News Reader

This looks fantastic! But…

I love emojis, I hate to be _that guy_ about this, but the emojis on the introduction page make it hard to read. Like, I don’t notmally associate the radar emoji with sharing or the twinkle emoji with features, so my brain read “screen monitor sharing radar dish”.

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They aren't my preference either, but I wonder if you might be taking them a bit too literally. They aren't necessarily intended as a direct representation of anything, they are just there to decorate the text and express a bit of silly fun in a way that may or may not be immediately relevant.

The problem is that many people do in fact use emojis instead of words in the flow of text. It’s a super common idiom (think about how people use the eggplant emoji in texts). So you can’t just use emojis to duplicate words in a sentence or people will read it as the same word twice (or worse, two completely different words that break the sentence’s grammar).

That's exactly how I use them. I'll probably add a selector for "with Emojis | Plain text" on the website. So we can make everyone happy.

Adolf Loos would turn in his grave.

The website will ask you "do you like emojis?" once. If you answer with yes, you see emojis, if you answer no, all emojis will be hidden from you from that point on.

Now the website asks if you like emojis or not. I don't mind the emojis, but if I did, I think I'd prefer them to the popup.

But this doesn’t even solve the problem because I DO like emojis!

Agreed, the emojis in the description are distracting.

this is a comment worthy of a wat? emoji

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