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sphyesterday at 5:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

Throwback to the days HN had emojis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3547056


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OptionOfTyesterday at 6:54 PM

Testing if it still works:

> I just tried this, sending from Verbs (iOS 5 supports emoji since forever), and yes, I can see the with no problem whatsoever :-)

I just tried this, sending from Verbs (iOS 5 supports emoji since forever), and yes, I can see the with no problem whatsoever :-)

Edit: completely swallowed!

YesBoxyesterday at 9:57 PM

Wow, that's comparatively very colorful. If they were kept, I wonder how HN's userbase would be different. Or how the culture would be different today. It's a different experience being able to communicate with colorful symbols. You can imply or compact a lot of words into one emoji :D