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As seen on twitch, letting people put emojis in their name on a black and white site sets up a system where scanning eyes just see those eye-candies and skip ov
by carrolldunham 6y ago
As seen on twitch, letting people put emojis in their name on a black and white site sets up a system where scanning eyes just see those eye-candies and skip over the rest. This is useful on twitch as it highlights the streamer's paying subscribers but here it's just whoever is more obnoxious.
- pippy 6y agoPutting a filter: grayscale(); over the title makes the emojis melt more into the text. it makes it a bit more readable.
- carrolldunham 6y agoAt that point why not just filter images from twitter?
- andyfleming 6y agoSome posts not might make sense without the image as opposed to a post that’d not intended to have an image. Also, there’s an argument to be made for emojis adding tone, albeit lazily. Grayscale sounds like an interesting middle ground.
- Willamin 6y agoOne solution to this issue is to use an emoji font that is designed to be color-free, like one of the variants of OpenEmoji.
- smhmd 6y agoI disagree. Using this thing for an hour, users with emojis are more distinguishable at a glance. I often face this issue with HN where I have to read the user's username to know if they're OP. Twitter usernames with emojis, however, is really obnoxious.
- carrolldunham 6y agoit sounds like you are implying every user should have a distinct emoji at the start of their name .. i.e. an avatar image