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Emojis disappear and empty-comment error appears when posting a comment under dreams #69
Bug
Resolved
In the 'Comments' section under dreams, emojis are not working. They show up when composing but they disappear when "Send" is pressed. Also, I am being told that I must enter at least 1 letter in the comment box.
Resolved: Emoji were being stripped from comments by a change meant for dream titles. Comments never needed it — fixed today.
Exactly, whenever I try to react, it says: "We apologize, but the emoji you requested is not currently supported."
And when I put them in the reply, they don't show when I press send.
You found the thing that identified it, and thank you for it.
On Thursday evening we shipped a change meant to protect dream titles. Most of our text is kept in an older format that cuts a line at the first emoji, so "Sunset 🌅 over the bay" was being stored as "Sunset " — 442 titles a week were losing their words that way. The change takes emoji out of what you type before it can do that.
Comments were caught by it, and they never should have been. Comments, replies and reactions are stored in a form that has always handled emoji perfectly — 820,000 comments on the site carry them. We were removing them from the one place they were safe.
It is fixed as of today, and nothing you had already written was touched. Dream titles still have their emoji removed, because there the alternative is losing the words that follow; we will fix that properly by changing how that column is stored.
The "enter at least 1 letter" message you saw was the same fault seen from the other end: a comment made only of emoji had nothing left in it by the time it reached us, so the site thought you had sent an empty box.