I like it.

Good user experience isn't about dogmatically sticking to "text only", but about making a useful, understandable, navigable site.

Emojis seem to help section the dozens of links on the homepage without adding unnecessary visual distraction or page payload.

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argee 10 hours ago | parent [-]

> unnecessary visual distraction

I think I personally see emojis used in this manner as unnecessary visual distraction, because it detracts from whatever self-consistent design system you had going on (when used for high visibility items like front page headings). Emojis don't even render the same on every platform, so its a move that dilutes your design language.

Even if it's a useful visual guide, I would wager nine times out of ten you'd be better off with a self-consistent icon set...depending on what you're going for, of course.

	▲	OkayPhysicist 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The page uses 'font-family: sans-serif'. They've already given up on any control over what the page looks like. They leave it up to the browser, which, IMO, more sites should do.
	▲	xnx 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Sites having individual "design language" is part of the problem that got us to the current balkanized web.