Happy to see experimentation here. Some quick thoughts:
The “Column” looked a lot to me like a garbage can at first. I like the “+” in Slack for this purpose, that could be good.
Checkmark makes me think “agree”, not “verified”. Maybe a badge or something?
“Support” and “Agreement” seem very similar to me?
While it’s a different theme, I’m in favor of using popular icons where possible. My guess is that these will make it more accessible. I like the eyes you use, in part because are close to the icon. I also like:
🚀 or 🎉 → This is a big accomplishment.
🙏 → Thanks for doing this.
😮 → This is surprising / interesting.
It could be kind of neat to later celebrate great rationalist things by having custom icons for them, to represent when a post reminds people of their work in some way.
I like that it shows who reacted what, that makes a big deal to me.
I agree with the :tada: icon, 🎉, but I don’t agree that 🙏 means “thanks” or that 😮 is actually surprised. 😮 looks sorta {horrified, frightened, shocked} to me.
That’s based on how you see those icons get uses in the wild, or what they look like to you? I agree that both of them are somewhat weird to interpret to mean those things, but, like, 😛 also is not at all what I do in real life when I’m making the particular flavor of silly joke that 😛 conveys, yet here we are.
That’s based on how you see those icons get uses in the wild, or what they look like to you?
yep both of those. I’d label those “praying” and “shocked”. this is not to say you’re wrong to see them that way locally, just that my view of emoji zeitgeist differs from your view of it.
Happy to see experimentation here. Some quick thoughts:
The “Column” looked a lot to me like a garbage can at first. I like the “+” in Slack for this purpose, that could be good.
Checkmark makes me think “agree”, not “verified”. Maybe a badge or something?
“Support” and “Agreement” seem very similar to me?
While it’s a different theme, I’m in favor of using popular icons where possible. My guess is that these will make it more accessible. I like the eyes you use, in part because are close to the icon. I also like:
🚀 or 🎉 → This is a big accomplishment.
🙏 → Thanks for doing this.
😮 → This is surprising / interesting.
It could be kind of neat to later celebrate great rationalist things by having custom icons for them, to represent when a post reminds people of their work in some way.
I like that it shows who reacted what, that makes a big deal to me.
I agree with the :tada: icon, 🎉, but I don’t agree that 🙏 means “thanks” or that 😮 is actually surprised. 😮 looks sorta {horrified, frightened, shocked} to me.
That’s based on how you see those icons get uses in the wild, or what they look like to you? I agree that both of them are somewhat weird to interpret to mean those things, but, like, 😛 also is not at all what I do in real life when I’m making the particular flavor of silly joke that 😛 conveys, yet here we are.
yep both of those. I’d label those “praying” and “shocked”. this is not to say you’re wrong to see them that way locally, just that my view of emoji zeitgeist differs from your view of it.
Nod, gotcha. Do you have emoji you typically use for surprised/thanks?
none of these are quite right. exclaim is the most appropriate one, I think.
in comparison, I guess
isn’t that weird after all!