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Comment by markonthewall | Hacker News Reader

I genuinely don't understand all the fuss about this. I could be way off, but how does that content fulfill the "intellectually gratifying" clause of HN?

Please someone explain me, why is this on the front page (read what's interesting about this news and what am I missing).

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It's a new an interesting usage for emoji, could end up being trend setting, and lots of people use Slack so it's relevant there as well. I would not have thought to use emoji in this way, but seeing it in action I grok the value immediately. That is intellectually gratifying for me.

To be honest, I have a hard finding value in this news, but I realize people may have different interests. Thank you for sharing your reasons with me.

It's a well-written summary of how they responded to customer feedback. Just because emojis are a generally non-serious topic doesn't make this content any less gratifying. I personally thought it was very smart of them to expand a current feature (emojis) to cover a new feature request from their users.

I imagine it's a combination of:

1) People find it interesting

2) Slack is a YC company which always get bonus exposure here

Edit - Nevermind. Slack was not part of YC. They've acquired a number of YC companies.

When did YC invest in Slack? edit: this was a legit question, not a stick poking. YC has invested in hundreds of companies now, so I thought maybe I missed it.

Yep, no worries, my quick research was simply incorrect. Their funding has been primarily from agb@Accel and a16z.

"intellectually gratifying" is not meant as "content for brainiacs".

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