Yeah but it's twitter, a massive organisation with lots of programmers. Did whoever is in charge of the product decide an emoji picker was required and commission it? Or did Tom just decide to do it for fun?
Did it have anything to do with people leaving earlier this week :) (joke)
This is likely getting upvoted because it shouldn't take that long to ship a damn emoji picker / this use of resources is why Twitter is in decline, etc.
From a QA perspective, an emoji picker, with emoji searching and color setting, is tricker than it looks. For example, which emoji would you expect to see for a search query of "happy"? http://i.imgur.com/HU3sP7N.png
(Actually, why isn't the smiling cat a result for a "happy" query?)
FYI, I'm not sure if it's part of the standard, but you can easily get a list of keywords for the search feature you mentioned http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html (though it looks like Twitter is using a different/augmented set of keywords)
I'm imagining a product owner and a bunch other stake holders sitting in a meeting room adding a bunch of keywords to each emoji. Or just copying a list from somewhere on the Internet and filtering it (my bet would be on this).
Discord (the chat application targeted at gamers) had it shipped much quicker and it works as well. They had it come with searching and skin colour setting too.
I empathize celebrating a work project accomplishment. On the other hand, I'm perplexed by the dilemma of tarnishing my company's image, given all it's recent tribulations, devaluing my equity as a result.
Maybe I'm giving too much weight to single individual's effect on altering public opinion (stock price).
1. Shipping is good. 3,5 years may seem bad, but it's much better than never, which is probably what this guy is celebrating. Having worked in big tech companies, where you basically get nothing done because of broken process and politics, I get why he is happy about this
2. lol, 3,5 years is still ridiculously slow. Sure there can be technical difficulties, sure it can be a side project, but that's a really bloody long time, companies are built and make dozens of millions in that time. I could probably build a faster twitter with a good team in that time.
It's hard to see which is the stance here, I'm happy for the guy for shipping, but it makes me kind of lol. Our industry is stupid sometimes.
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Perhaps he was only working on it 1 day a month, but even if thats the case, there is even a wtf that a side project made it into the main release.
How does somebody even stay interested and passionate about such a small piece of work for so long?
He probably scratched his own itch.
[0] https://twitter.com/tw/status/812221656005386240
Did it have anything to do with people leaving earlier this week :) (joke)
From a QA perspective, an emoji picker, with emoji searching and color setting, is tricker than it looks. For example, which emoji would you expect to see for a search query of "happy"? http://i.imgur.com/HU3sP7N.png
(Actually, why isn't the smiling cat a result for a "happy" query?)
FYI, I'm not sure if it's part of the standard, but you can easily get a list of keywords for the search feature you mentioned http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html (though it looks like Twitter is using a different/augmented set of keywords)
Maybe I'm giving too much weight to single individual's effect on altering public opinion (stock price).
I wondered about this before I saw this video as well. For all their dev capacity, Twitter is arguably a product with a lot of problems.
2. lol, 3,5 years is still ridiculously slow. Sure there can be technical difficulties, sure it can be a side project, but that's a really bloody long time, companies are built and make dozens of millions in that time. I could probably build a faster twitter with a good team in that time.
It's hard to see which is the stance here, I'm happy for the guy for shipping, but it makes me kind of lol. Our industry is stupid sometimes.