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Or perhaps it's because sometime the meaning of emoji can be hard to understand, rather than "gah! young people"
by baud147258 8y ago
Or perhaps it's because sometime the meaning of emoji can be hard to understand, rather than "gah! young people"
- FuckOffNeemo 8y agoI argue emojois make it easier to understand. Whether conveying sarcasm, frustration, joy or anger. It's much easier to infer the tone of a message using emojis.
- baud147258 8y agoI'd agree that for emotional context, it can be useful. But I don't think the way they are used there is easy to understand. I mean what's the meaning of the heart regarding CI or the pen for bugs? Is that indicative of a categorie of commit (CI, bug-fix...) or just to decorate the message? Also another issue is that emojis are not as easily indexable/searchable.
- wild_preference 8y agoWell, in this comment thread we have "it's not nice to see them work [in this case]" and "I'm not sure how I feel about emojis working [in this case]." So, no, I don't think the issue is that they don't work in this case. HN definitely does have a knee-jerk hate for them, and if you spend enough time here you'll see that a lot of it really is just "gah, young people." It's the new hate on txt-speak.
- pfp 8y agoExactly. They are ambiguous, increase visual clutter and not backwards compatible with older systems. Even if they manage to convey a meaning, like the other poster said, that meaning is emotional instead of factual. Why would anyone ever wish to express emotions in a commit message, or even in a business communications tool like Slack, is beyond my comprehension. For personal communication they can serve a purpose, but that's not the topic here.