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Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back in my day we called them avatars, youngster!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And we used to have to manually write the hexadecimal values of colors in arrays by hand to generate them. Uphill, both ways.