Apple does the exact same thing. And, even though it annoys the heck out of me, I also recognize that these platforms are fairly mature, feature-wise - so there's just not a whole lot of new and useful functionality they can add. So they resort to padding out the "new features" list by including (what in my mind counts as) trivial stuff, such as new emoji.
There is so much garbage in the emoji panel now. I sure love scrolling past men in bridal veils, asexual zombies and fake "service" dogs to get to the useful emojis. They need to let us start hiding this trash.
It's got nothing to do with being written in Perl, and everything to do with their general incompetence. Perl can handle Unicode. They just break the site all the time while making apparently trivial changes. Meanwhile, mobile fucking sucks all the rocks available for sucking. It's missing half the features of the classic interface, or more! What a shit-show.
It's got nothing to do with being written in Perl, and everything to do with their general incompetence. Perl can handle Unicode. They just break the site all the time while making apparently trivial changes. Meanwhile, mobile fucking sucks all the rocks available for sucking. It's missing half the features of the classic interface, or more! What a shit-show.
Exactly!
It doesn't even have a Preview, FFS!!!
Slashdot's webcoders have got to be the most incompetent on the planet. Seriously.
The problem is not implementing Unicode, but to make it troll-proof.
Slashdot used to support Unicode many moons ago. The problem was that/. trolls are too smart and used Unicode to write backwards, erased the post score or user id, and replaced those with fake values.
Also it was not unheard of to place links to lookalike domains that use Cyrillic characters that are indistinguishable from Latin script. I do think that part of the motivation in disabling Unicode support was to make it difficult to converse in any language other than English, however.
The problem is not implementing Unicode, but to make it troll-proof.
Slashdot used to support Unicode many moons ago. The problem was that/. trolls are too smart and used Unicode to write backwards, erased the post score or user id, and replaced those with fake values.
Well, they can still add validation and filters. Isn’t the strength of Perl meant to be its regular expressions? It is so annoying to see common characters being misinterpreted, with one of the most common ones being the curly quotes.
Lol emoji updates on the same page as a major feat (Score:0)
What a joke. How do I get a job where my emojis are considered breaking updates on par with bringing millions of apps to the table?
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Welcome to the 21st century where, like it or not, emoji's are a significant part of human communication over the internet.
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Apple does the exact same thing. And, even though it annoys the heck out of me, I also recognize that these platforms are fairly mature, feature-wise - so there's just not a whole lot of new and useful functionality they can add. So they resort to padding out the "new features" list by including (what in my mind counts as) trivial stuff, such as new emoji.
we're long past the point of useful emoji updates (Score:0)
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Yep, and where are the real emojis? They're all "LOL" and happy.
Where's the emoji for "fuck off" or "screw you"?
Re:we're long past the point of useful emoji updat (Score:3)
"Reversed hand with middle finger extended"
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Re:we're long past the point of useful emoji updat (Score:4, Informative)
and of course, Slashdot hates unicode.. so..
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Re: we're long past the point of useful emoji upda (Score:2)
Still wonder when theyâ(TM)ll get with the program? Probably just too hard for them, since this is all written in Perl?
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It's got nothing to do with being written in Perl, and everything to do with their general incompetence. Perl can handle Unicode. They just break the site all the time while making apparently trivial changes. Meanwhile, mobile fucking sucks all the rocks available for sucking. It's missing half the features of the classic interface, or more! What a shit-show.
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It's got nothing to do with being written in Perl, and everything to do with their general incompetence. Perl can handle Unicode. They just break the site all the time while making apparently trivial changes. Meanwhile, mobile fucking sucks all the rocks available for sucking. It's missing half the features of the classic interface, or more! What a shit-show.
Exactly!
It doesn't even have a Preview, FFS!!!
Slashdot's webcoders have got to be the most incompetent on the planet. Seriously.
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Slashdot used to support Unicode many moons ago. The problem was that
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Also it was not unheard of to place links to lookalike domains that use Cyrillic characters that are indistinguishable from Latin script. I do think that part of the motivation in disabling Unicode support was to make it difficult to converse in any language other than English, however.
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The problem is not implementing Unicode, but to make it troll-proof.
Slashdot used to support Unicode many moons ago. The problem was that /. trolls are too smart and used Unicode to write backwards, erased the post score or user id, and replaced those with fake values.
Well, they can still add validation and filters. Isn’t the strength of Perl meant to be its regular expressions? It is so annoying to see common characters being misinterpreted, with one of the most common ones being the curly quotes.