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But any programmer knows that an elaborate solution that takes a day of programming is a lot more fun than…",[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":65,"objections":81,"requests":115,"questions":143,"alternatives":151},[66,74],{"value":67,"source":68,"evidence":69},"Simple and does what it promises.","commenter",[70],{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"11768301","imakesoft","I like it. It's simple & elegant and does exactly what it promises to do. :)",{"value":75,"source":68,"evidence":76},"Useful for learning emoji meanings.",[77],{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},"11762635","23andwalnut","A bank would be useful for general learning. i.e. when I went to the site just now, I didn't have a specific emoji that I needed to identify, but if there had been a 'bank of…",[82,97,108],{"value":83,"source":68,"evidence":84},"Gives only the Unicode name, not the cultural or slang meaning.",[85,89,93],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"11762856","LukeB_UK","It still doesn't really tell you what it means, just the name\u002Fannotation.",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"11763499","azinman2","Except so many of them are culturally specific, like the horn emoji on the front page has roots in postal systems (both in Japan and Europe). This page doesn't tell you that.…",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"11766047","callmeed","Cool but you definitely need to include \"alternative\" meanings. Consider doing something like Urban Dictionary so people can find out what the eggplant really means.",{"value":98,"source":68,"evidence":99},"Emojipedia offers more context.",[100,104],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"11763747","gtk40","I feel like http:\u002F\u002Femojipedia.org\u002F is a better website with more information. I've been regularly using it since Emoji have become a thing. It gives more context about the…",{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"11763056","mentalbastille","This looks very similar to http:\u002F\u002Femojipedia.org\u002F",{"value":109,"source":68,"evidence":110},"Some emoji render blank on some systems.",[111],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"11762981","viewer5","I'm not really up on how text rendering works; what's it mean if I can see some of those, but not others? e.g. I have Rocket but not Helicopter; not Steam Locomotive but Railway…",[116,128,135],{"value":117,"source":68,"evidence":118},"Add user-generated or community cultural meanings.",[119,123,127],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"11763681","TJTorola","It would be cool if you could allow for user commenting\u002Fvoting so that people could add and build up cultural context for them rather than just having the spec definition. 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