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Comment by ChrisArchitect | Hacker News Reader

Thank you Slack? For the confusing use of "emoji" instead "animated GIF" or sticker.

I’m similarly annoyed by Discord’s term “server”.

Only recently started using Discord, and joined various “servers”, which seem as basically just groups with chats. When I was prompted to create my own “server”, at first was hesitant thinking “whoa, I don’t want them to provision a whole server for me, that can’t be cheap”, then realized it has nothing to do with actual servers.

In the Discord API, "servers" are called "guilds" which I assume it was the original name for them when they started developing the platform. Don't know why they decided to change it.

Suspect, pure speculation, when they pivoted from being focused on gamers, switching from guild to server helped.

Or, even more broad, someone just thought it might and implemented it, irrespective of whether it actually changed anything (discernible from background growth) or not

In the dark ages of the internet, you had to host a server in things like Ventrilo[1], which was the thing Discord tried and succeeded at disrupting. Since now you can create a "server" for talking with friends (and friends of friends) without being technical.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventrilo

Did you have any success with the servers you joined?

I want to start using it as well, but I just feel like an old person, not really getting it

Even as a slack user I’m confused. Slack emoji should still be usable in low resolutions and preferably have transparent background. None of the examples seem like emoji.

Thank you. As a non-Slack user, this explains a lot. I was somewhat disappointed that this didn't generate actual emojis.

Would that even make sense, to “generate emojis” ? They are defined by the Unicode emoji specs like here: https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/ I guess it would need to generate all possible emojis given by the spec? Supposing it did generate all emojis, is there even a way to “install” it for example iOS ?

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