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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.




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