HN Emoji Support
Users discuss the lack of emoji support in Hacker News comments and titles, share workarounds like URL encoding, and debate the value and appropriateness of using emojis on the platform.
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A browser plugin that changes all applicable text to their respective emoji.
What's up with the emoticons?
What can this do that emojis can't?
that's what the emoji's are for.
och my emojis didn't display, sorry
custom emojis still didn't make the cut?
The future's now. Try posting emoji on HN!
emojis - just because you can, doesn't mean you should...
ok so no emoji in comments I guess
sadly HN does not support emoji and my title is ruined.