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[โ€“] humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I fucking hate corporate use of emojis.

Just feels like some businesspeople were convinced it drives up "engagement", so that's what their underlings to do.

It makes me sick. I support any and all efforts to remove these ideas and the people who perpetuate them from the free software space.

[โ€“] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Petition to ban this style of emoji use

[โ€“] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago

I'll sign, this is just awful. Like a weird punctuation that is just there to be in the way.

[โ€“] mereo@piefed.ca 9 points 3 days ago

I agree. It's ChatGPT style, I hate it.

[โ€“] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 6 points 3 days ago

Your comment made me go down a rabbithole and this thread pretty much summarizes everything: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/firefox/comments/azg1xz/disablingblocking_emojis/

[โ€“] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That article ๐Ÿ“„ was pretty pointless ๐Ÿคน. Just three 3๏ธโƒฃ paragraphs saying "we did stuff ๐Ÿงธand we're happy about the community". ๐Ÿš€

[โ€“] iveseenthat@reddthat.com 17 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the tldr. And I appreciate the emojis in the text. My reading and understanding experience was elevated by them ๐Ÿฅฆ. Just like ๐Ÿ”ฎ with OP's ๐Ÿ‘ž title ๐Ÿš€

[โ€“] Zachariah@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Generally speaking, you would produce a report recapping a year after that year is over, yes.

[โ€“] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But not usually after nearly half a year later

[โ€“] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Actually, yeah, every year for them its released the summer of the following year.

Each subproject submits their own detailed overview of the prior year, including any conference/working group events, sprints, pictures from the same, mentorship progeams, major changes in individual projects, as well as detailed financials for where money came from, where the money went.

It generally will take a few months to compile that (especially when you're talking an open source foundation with a multitude of groups under the umbrella), and then time to organize it all.

Even companies will take several months after the conclusion of their year to provide similar details in an annual review.

Its a bit late this year being in August, usually its June, but late spring to summer is when it gets released every year.

Edited to add: I think it even came out in October or November some years back. 2018? 2019? Something like that.

[โ€“] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

interesting

[โ€“] Danitos@reddthat.com 3 points 3 days ago

Reports are usually done for the past year. 2025 has not finished, so no day of making a complete report.