Honestly there should be a page that just displays the emojis and scroll to find the picture and click for an explanation. It’s really stupid to just ask “who is she?” in reply to an emoji you’ve seen twenty times and never known the context and then like three people come out of the woodwork to yell at you about hentai and you have no idea what the hell is going on.

If someone actually types out all that about the emojis we will end up getting rid of half of them lol

communities that seem to be duplicates of one another, namely /c/hexbear, /c/den, and /c/feedback

I’ll need to double check this before I post, but I think these 3 at least have decent sidebars, unlike some of the comms. From memory:

• hexbear: local-only meta community for non-technical discussion about the site & site policies
• den: local-only chat community, largely unused and mostly should have been posted to the prior IMO
• feedback: technical site discussion

Hah!

Hexbear Meta Community

Posts should be a a Proposal (idea for changing the site), Feedback (regarding non-technical aspects of the site, for technical please use https://hexbear.net/c/feedback), or Appeals (regarding admin/moderator actions).

Yep. My most recent post there would maybe have been better elsewhere since I didn’t explicitly ask for a comm to be defeateddefederated, but that’s why I posted there.

A space for Hexbear users to chat with other Hexbear users, users from other instances will be banned if they comment or post.

A bunch of the posts on the first page feel to me like they’d fit better in the meta comm, yeah.

Tell us how we’re doing and report bugs. If you’re technically inclined, please submit bugs to the chapo gitea project.

A couple posts IMO would fit better elsewhere, but mostly aligned with that.

The emojis are like a fun hidden mythology to me, I don’t know what many are or where they came from but I just use them for emphasis like regular emojis Over time I learned how they were used like an extra part of the online dialect. If you don’t know what someone means with their emoji hieroglyphics it doesn’t hurt to ask usually. Sometimes people can be rude to others that ask legitimate questions though which is a tendency that should be destroyed.

if emojis had their own pages you could comment on that would be neat

I like this idea. There is a lot of ambiguity over where a post should go and I think having a meta wiki would largely eliminate that.

this is a great idea. a catalog of the emojis would be super helpful bc the emoji picker is not that helpful if you only have a vague recollection of the context the emoji comes from

John Kerry (wrecker)

i came across this before but it’s not very fleshed out at all. it would be cool if it was though cause things can get confusing like you said.

I wonder if short blurbs describing the emoji could be embedded in alt-text?

That would be phenomenal. This is a great idea.

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