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Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf]
- paglaghoda 1y ago[dead]
- lifestyleguru 1y agoWould be the most culturally neutral "party emoji". Party popper is not used that much outside of Anglosphere, confetti ball even less so and its emoji looks like medusa.
- charcircuit 1y ago>confetti ball even less so Because it's a Japan only thing.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y agoAh yes the super smash brothers ball
- tgv 1y agoWhy would you have such a thing? When you communicate, you know the receivers' culture, isn't it? Otherwise wouldn't it be a rather infrequent symbol with less practical use than e.g. "incomplete infinity"?
- usrusr 1y agoDo you? All I know about the readers of this post is that they either know how to read English, use some translation service or won't understand much of what I was writing. But even when you do know exactly who you're addressing, they might be a very diverse group.
- tgv 1y agoThis is not about any message, this is about an icon signifying "party". In your argumentation: they might not even know what a party is! That's how useless such an icon would be.
- gpt5 1y agoIt is part of Unicode, and I've never seen it being used. I'll venture to say it didn't catch up as a party emoji.
- thomascountz 1y agoThe iconic decoration reflects light in all directions and transforms every room - no matter how big its size - into a glamorous space in which people can dance or dream. I never thought about dreaming in a room with a disco ball in it. I think the informality of emoji proposals is really special!
- heinrich5991 1y agoU+1FAA9
- deathanatos 1y agoAdded in Unicode 14: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-14.0/emoji-released.html https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-14.0/emoji-released.html I also appreciate melting face, dotted outline face, and face with salute. Low battery & ID card.
- drno123 1y agoAlso the pregnant man / Bill Gates was added there :)
- DonHopkins 1y agoIt should reflect the colors of pixels on the screen in all different directions in real time, and also cast bright spots of colored light all over the screen, while spinning. The stress test would be to fill the entire screen with many disco balls, over live video. Also a set of colored spotlight and smoke machine emojis would go well with it nicely too.
- kungp 1y agoCan we have hardware ray tracing for emojis?
- adornKey 1y agoAnd why is there still no standard way to embed audio tracks into fonts? Each Unicode character deserves a sound! And Rick Astley needs to be heard more often...
- ygritte 1y ago> Rick Astley Agreed. Do the kids even still know about him?
- ygritte 1y agoAny platform that introduces hardware ray tracing for the first time will do so for the sake of emojis.
- handsclean 1y agoNaturally, it should also make all full body emoji start dancing, but only when proximate and with a line of sight not obstructed by a U+99385 SOLID WALL. Specific dance moves are implementation dependent, but SHOULD adapt to the user’s locale.
- kookamamie 1y agoCute, but all of the example emojis look pretty poor, murky if you will.
- weinzierl 1y agoClip art is dead, long live clip art! Unicode started with the mission to encode all characters needed for written communication in the world. This was already broad, but was not unusual for its time. Unlike Wikipedia, Unicode never went through a battle between inclusionists and deletionists. Moreover, with Han Unification it strayed from its core mission to "encode all characters needed for written communication in the world" (emphasis mine). Instead it ended up as a fancy clip art library that every software somehow has to support, but with no way to implement the standard in its entirety.
- lifthrasiir 1y agoEmoji can be seen as a bait for implementations to support under-represented or ancient scripts as a side effect. In fact, emoji worked so well that we now have a universal full non-BMP support everywhere. For example, MySQL used to have the cursed BMP-only utf8 charset aka utf8mb3! It lasted until everyone started to complain about emojis.
- jan_Inkepa 1y ago>Moreover, with Han Unification it strayed from its core mission to "encode all characters needed for written communication in the world" (emphasis mine). Why do you say that? Because Unicode now has become balkanised between various CJK regions?
- weinzierl 1y agoBecause it conflates distinct characters and therefore fails its original mission to encode all characters needed for written communication. Han Unification is just the most obvious case but the issues do not stop there. I'll give you a western example. In the sentence «Günther a souligné l’ambigüité de son discours.» there is an umlaut and a dieresis. They are different things with different function. In traditional book printing they used to look differently. With Unicode all this cultural nuance is lost. The characters necessary to communicate precisely simply have never been encoded, because Unicode forgot about its core mission. Fixing things like that is where I want to see efforts go.
- cubefox 1y agoIt is the year 2118. ASI is taking over the light cone. The economy grows 100% each solar year. Still no emoji support on Hacker News.
- kingstnap 1y agoEmoji filtration != lack of support.
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- weinzierl 1y agoHacker News supports emojis just fine, as you can see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23659248 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23659248 It's just that most people can't deal with them responsibly, so it has not been made easy.
- cubefox 1y ago¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
- michaelt 1y ago:'(
- bombcar 1y agoFor a glorious few hours after one of the last emoji updates hacker news did support it because they didn’t filter those ones out yet. They do not filter out some of the quasi emojis like the hieroglyphs. 𓂸 Out for harambe.
- arp242 1y agoIt's not a matter of not supporting it; if you can store UTF-8 (as HN does) then you can store emojis. It's that HN actively strips emojis. One of the more childish and petty aspects of the site IMO.
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- donatj 1y agoIt's been in the Unicode standard as #129705 since 14.0 but I don't think I've ever sent or received one. I'd be curious to know how the actual usage stats aligned with their expectations.
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- saw-lau 1y agoHow do I switch to the timeline where emojis, crypto, NFTs and generative AI weren't invented?
- tyleo 1y agoI’m convinced AI is a conspiracy by Big Emoji to get using more emoji. That’s why there are so many in its responses.
- portaouflop 1y agoLumping together emojis with these other nightmare technologies is wild. Name 1 bad thing that came from the invention of emojis that is comparable to the others
- saw-lau 1y agoNope - you've got me on that one. I can't.
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- ygritte 1y agoI would love a mirror ball emoji, why can't we have nice things?