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Emojis not working #70
Bug
Resolved
For some reason, my emojis are currently not working. Not sure if it's just me — does anyone else have similar issues today?
Resolved: Emoji were being stripped from comments by a change meant for dream titles. Comments never needed it — fixed today.
It was not just you, and it was not your emoji.
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.