the "emoji everywhere" movement is really starting to annoy me. Half of the symbols still don't work universally, rendering question marks (?) and square boxes for an awful lot of users.
Not to mention I do not foresee ever having a keyboard with a Cow key, or Bridge key, etc.
This project and most emoji projects I've seen are meant as light-hearted takes on an existing product. The added benefit of a URL shortened service is the extended character alphabet to choose from, thus shorter links.
Of course you can use all of Unicode for this for an even larger set of possible chars, but you lose the "fun" aspect.
In the end, it's about not being too serious about things.
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the "emoji everywhere" movement is really starting to annoy me. Half of the symbols still don't work universally, rendering question marks (?) and square boxes for an awful lot of users.
Not to mention I do not foresee ever having a keyboard with a Cow key, or Bridge key, etc.
This project and most emoji projects I've seen are meant as light-hearted takes on an existing product. The added benefit of a URL shortened service is the extended character alphabet to choose from, thus shorter links.
Of course you can use all of Unicode for this for an even larger set of possible chars, but you lose the "fun" aspect.
In the end, it's about not being too serious about things.