# Emoji and Discourse

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**Created:** [December 31, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-and-discourse/37292 "2015-12-31T01:21:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-and-discourse/37292/1 "2015-12-31T01:21:32Z")

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Originally published at: [Emoji and Discourse](https://blog.discourse.org/2015/12/emoji-and-discourse/)  
   
We’ve always had a strong relationship with Emoji. From the earliest days of Discourse, you could add Emoji to your posts by by typing : and using our handy Emoji autocompleter: Of course : just so happens to be the first character of the most common ASCII smiley, our old pal 🙂 – so hopefully…

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