There may soon be a lot less comments on GitHub, and that’s a good thing. Today, the company is introducing emoji reactions for comments, pull requests and issues — just as you find in chat services like Slack. Instead of a responding with a full comment agreeing or disagreeing with another GitHub comment, you can just give it a thumbs up or down. GitHub engineer Jake Boxer: While people have been able to include emoji in responses for a long time, using them as reactions resulted in a lot of noise. In many cases, especially on popular projects, the result is…
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