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Ask HN: Why can’t I use emojis on HN?
- Proven 4y ago
- omosubi 4y agoCause people will abuse it and and a dozen 100 emojis to their messages - please keep the status quo
- thatsunpossible 4y ago
- plaguepilled 4y agoYou fear emoji because of their immense power. :0
- me1337 4y agoThis behavior is by design
- elpakal 4y agoObviously, but why?
- DamnYuppie 4y agoIf you have to ask there is no way I would want you to be able to use emojis!
- usrn 4y agoThey're typographically awful and they're unprofessional.
- walrus01 4y agoDo like we did in the bbs era and pre Unicode emoji standard and use ascii compliant smilies
- tintedfireglass 4y agoLooks like reddit is leaking here lmao
- notsound 4y agoThis is very accurate. Hopefully everyone is chill and explains their reasoning.
- speedgoose 4y ago> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. The HN guidelines.
- tintedfireglass 4y agoOh sorry for that, didn't realize.
- cttet 4y agoIt have colours. Which is too much of visual stimulation IMO. I am OK if they are black and white.
- moistly 4y agoBecause it’s expected that you’re smart enough to use your words.
- aaron695 4y ago
- asddubs 4y agomaybe they're using utf8_unicode_ci instead of utf8mb4_unicode_ci on their mysql database :P it's probably a manual filter
- usrn 4y agoI'm pretty sure they're writing s-expressions to disk but maybe things have evolved since I last looked.
- News-Dog 4y agoThere are good security reasons, among others to filter some unicode; Homoglyph : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph UniCode 'Confusables' Visual-Spoofing : https://unicode.org/reports/tr36/#visual_spoofing https://unicode.org/reports/tr36/#visual_spoofing The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor : https://certitude.consulting/blog/en/invisible-backdoor/ https://certitude.consulting/blog/en/invisible-backdoor/ >There are many other characters that look similar to the ones used in code which may be used for such proposes, (e.g. “／”, “−”, “＋”, “⩵”, “”, “⫽”, “꓿”, “∗”). Unicode calls these characters “confusables”.<*
- chitowneats 4y ago(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
- freedomben 4y agoAs you can see from the reaction to your question, a lot of users view lack of emoji as a feature rather than a bug. HN is known for being a very simple, text-based site. HN is viewed by many as one of the last bastion of the old internet, and adding emoji would be likely to result in forks and a civil war. I would imagine that adding emoji is a very low priority, if not an intentional design.
- derbOac 4y agoI don't miss emojis on the site but there is something to be said for the idea of HN being fully Unicode compliant, consequences be damned.
- krapp 4y agoHacker News doesn't even comply with the barely extant layout standards of the early web that it emulates, and the anti-modern contrarian establishment here is weirdly proud of it.
- throwaway675309 4y agoBecause we'd like to keep hacker news from slowly devolving into its lesser gifted cousin Reddit.
- errantmind 4y agoIt is too late for that.
- boppo1 4y agoIt's not that bad yet.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoLast bit: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- thomassmith65 4y agoI don't want to play 'guess what this means' when I read comments here. I'm too old to waste time figuring out if someone is talking about an eggplant or a phallus, etc. Let other sites cater to people who want to post memes and emojis. I doubt their lack irritates people who like them nearly as much as their presence irritates people who do not.
- beanlog 4y agoI think the main problem is that they're too attention grabbing. Especially in a UI in HN where everything else is plain text, an emoji would have so much visual weight your eyes would have trouble focusing on anything else on the page. Forbidding such visual grenades helps keep the focus on the content.
- boppo1 4y agoI'm not trying to be mean, but if you think emojis would be appropriate here, I don't think you understand the site you're on.