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Emojis
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2014–2024), in 8 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Unsupported emoji show nothing or wrong images on some devicesUnreviewed
20142026- Emoji icons on every process make it hard to distill information2024-05-15
- Icons are inconsistent across apps and themes, and emojis render as unreadable squares2020-12-05
- Unsupported emoji show nothing or get replaced by wrong images on some devices2019-07-25
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 8 complaints
- Emoji meanings are ambiguous and depend on context, so one emoji can map to several intended meanings2024-05-16
- Emoji icons on every process make it hard to distill information2024-05-15
- No way to browse more combinations from the interface2023-06-10
- Took a while to figure out the play button2021-07-31
- Forces readers to stop and guess whether an emoji carries meaning2021-05-05
- Icons are inconsistent across apps and themes, and emojis render as unreadable squares2020-12-05
- Unsupported emoji show nothing or get replaced by wrong images on some devices2019-07-25
- Can't tell which image a text emoticon was meant to be2014-12-07