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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by darby_nine on Thursday August 01, 2024 @08:17PM (#41134990)
> This website has no tracking or analytics

The "\u263Eoe\u2721is\u271E" of online politics if I've ever seen. Nearly meaningless but people place great emotional and identity-based weight on it (even if they've signed away all their data via TOS, as they likely have).

Sidebar—why does hacker news fuck with arbitrary unicode codepoints? Strikes me as deeply user-hostile behavior.

Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by samatman on Thursday August 01, 2024 @09:27PM (#41135328)
This place would be utterly unbearable with emoji.

The symbols you wanted to include are in the Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks, which I expect are all banned because they contain some emoji and this was the cheap way to be rid of those, quick test: "" "", that's a Miscellaneous Symbol and a Dingbat of no emotional valence to speak of and certainly not colourful ones.

As you can see, that's the deal: they're casualties. I wouldn't mind a more discerning filter, but then again, I wouldn't mind a dark mode, and here it is, years later.

Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by darby_nine on Friday August 02, 2024 @02:33PM (#41141343)
> This place would be utterly unbearable with emoji.

Evidently they've blocked far more than just emoji—I was just using standard unicode.

Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by petesergeant on Thursday August 01, 2024 @09:32PM (#41135359)
> \u263Eoe\u2721is\u271E

This is meant to be a representation of this image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coexist_(image) for people too lazy to copy and paste