Remove emoji from README lists for better readability. #149
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Remove emoji from all lists for readability.
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Each bullet under "Features" now aims for a single line: shorter phrasing, fewer parentheticals, detail pushed to the linked feature pages. Drops the etke.cc promo from the room-search bullet and points "Element Call" at the local calls doc section instead of upstream. Related to #119 Related to #149 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pushed 8dd1121f9, which goes at this from a different angle than "drop the emoji". My honest take: the emoji version reads better to me, not worse. One emoji per bullet gives the eye an anchor and makes me actually want to read the line; a plain bullet list is more of a wall of text that I bounce off. The emoji here aren't "too much" - roughly one per line, doing wayfinding, not decoration. What was making the Features section feel like a wall: some bullets were a single tight line and others wrapped to two or three, so the block had a ragged, dense shape. That commit rewrites every Features bullet to aim for one line - shorter phrasing, fewer parentheticals, detail moved onto the linked feature pages. Same set of links, much less prose. (It also drops the etke.cc plug from the room-search bullet and points "Element Call" at our own calls doc section.) I think that addresses the real readability complaint without losing the emoji. Happy to keep tuning individual lines, but I'd rather not strip them wholesale. |
Shorten the long-wrapping "Design Philosophy" bullets toward single lines: trim the readable/Fitts's-law and Arch Linux items, drop "via plain-YAML files" from the customization one. Links preserved. Related to #119 Related to #149 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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I will close this out for now. If someone wants to push for this change again they can make another PR in the future. |
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Fixes #119