They do enhance conversations and can help express emotions more prominently than "classic" punctuation marks or tone tags (the "/s" for example). But I don't think that more than 30 or max 40 is in actual use - rest of the seems to be just forgotten.
Frankly, whenever I read that subcommitte decided to introduce new extremely specific ideograms to the set, I wonder what's the point of that because as above: these probably will be forgotten or even not discovered.
But at the same time I wouldn't call them childish nonsense. We have been using various emoticons sets or even text ones on the Internet long before emoji become popular. They're in fact still emoticons just with fancy name and some standardization, interoperability.
I'd insert my favorite "melting face" here but it's not possible.
Haven't been checking this for 5 years but has something changed or there's still a risk that Discord will ban your account for not using the official client?
That part of the terms of service is still there, although they don't go out of their way to ban people unless they act like bots or whatever. I don't worry too much about Vencord, since all I'm using it for is editing CSS.
Discord could be knobheads about it, but I think they realise there's little point in actually implementing any checks and banning accounts unless said accounts actually cause problems. That section of the terms of service is probably there just as a catch-all just so they have a reason to ban, just so they don't need a good reason.
I still have blind hope that tags feature with the obligation to include them in each submission will be added, but that would cut... "activity" some of the most prominent accounts.
Not a fan of "For you" based on supposed similarities to what I've clicked before. Especially when e.g. "Scratch Programming Playground" has nothing to do with "Brave New World". I'd remove it but that's me.
Maybe language filters for non-English titles? Or if a book is in public domain already then links to the sources could be presented?
Yeah, Microsoft tried 'both ways' to expand their quite small Windows Phone applications catalogue. And while Project Astoria [1] aimed at bringing Android apps, Project Islandwood was about easing porting of iOS applications [2]. Then MS decided that Windows Phone platform has no future.
Still wish Windows Phone was around. Having basically no apps was a positive and at least some people at Microsoft understood it when they advertised WP as being for people who didn't want to use their phones all the time.
Being able to say "Oh sorry I can't run that I have a Windows Phone" was fantastic, and if like 10-15% of the young adult population could say that, random services and venues would not be able expect you to install unwanted mobile apps.
We had few submissions and links in comments this week to some very "young" projects and their home pages looked like pressed from the same machine.
But if it works for people who just want to share their software and avoid working around the packaging and presentation, then I guess "it is what it is".
Frankly, whenever I read that subcommitte decided to introduce new extremely specific ideograms to the set, I wonder what's the point of that because as above: these probably will be forgotten or even not discovered.
But at the same time I wouldn't call them childish nonsense. We have been using various emoticons sets or even text ones on the Internet long before emoji become popular. They're in fact still emoticons just with fancy name and some standardization, interoperability.
I'd insert my favorite "melting face" here but it's not possible.
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