They changed the shurtcut for ๐Ÿ‘ from (thumbsup) to :thumbsup:

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Makes sense

A parenthetical is more likely to be used in normal discourse than a word bookended by colons

As someone who gets annoyed every time a text smiley like :) gets automatically converted to an emoji ๐Ÿ™‚, I think that having a total separation from common sentence usage makes sense.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments