Comment on Youtube replaced unicode emojis with fucking images

No_Support_8363@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• bss03@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Consistency. They don’t want to be at the whim of your font (which for many users will be the OS default). While it’s not frequent, sometimes Apple (iOS) or Microsoft (Edge) will have a very different interpretation of a Unicode emoji, which makes the UX of comments containing those emoji inconsistent between YT users.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They they can grow up and add alt text

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  • qisope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If things work like twitch and they have custom emotes when you ‘join’ a channel as a paying member, it might also just be for consistency in how they handle the common free emotes and channel-specific emotes.

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  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s what webfonts are for

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    • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have been in meetings which people who thought the fact that a user could use a different font, even only intentionally, was “unacceptable”.

      I hope those people aren’t directing the ship at YT, but could be.

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It takes a lot more effort, leading to some developer keeping his job. Also, it increases the maintenance cost, again leading to some developer keeping his job.

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