Let a thousand annas-archives bloom
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Somebody on Mastodon shared this website earlier today. It tracks the status of various online libraries: https://open-slum.org/
Was it Namecheap again?
No idea, TBH.
Edit: WHOIS says Tucows.
I've had difficulty connecting to it for it seems a week, good to finally know what happened.
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I'm not even sure what this is but I like it.
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It's a confused cat (unable to access the archive and not knowing why) becoming a nodding cat with a speech bubble directed towards your comment.
I like making emoji layouts, lol.
I was assuming something like that, but biblically accurate threw me off. I didn't think about that the image is actually a cats head going up/down.
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Oh yeah, we don't actually have a regular cat emoji that I could find. I was that one of the one with a knife or the screaming one. 
We need more emojies
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I would reply to this with a DJ Khaled "Another One" emoji, but we don't have one. 
I was looking for some emoji related to "more" kinda thinking about kylo ren saying more. But :please-bro: was the only one that showed up that was kinda what I was looking for.
Edit: also someone looking at this post going "10 comments, there must be some discussion!" And its just us.
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Edit: also someone looking at this post going "10 comments, thrrmust be some discussion!" And its just us.
Excessive emoji usage is a pathway to abilities some may consider... unnatural. 
"10 comments, thrrmust be some discussion!"
Me lol
No we don't.
Yes we do!
No. We don't.
We have no comprehensive way to see what we have as is. Quantity for quantity sake is lame.
The emoji picker works really well in combination with the emoji tags. Instead of using the popup that appears when you type ":", look for the emoji icon at the top of the comment entry box. It has a much better search algorithm and allows you to see more emoji at a time.
Also, it's not quantity for it's own sake. People propose really great new emoji all the time, and not everyone uses the same emoji. For example, TankieTanuki recently submitted the one below, which I really liked, so I cleaned it up with larger text and it was added.
As a non-Hexbear user, doo-doo opinion. SDF has no emojis 😔
There is more than the two options you seem to think we are stuck with.
Yeah I'm just jealous of y'all with a funny moderation/admin team. Like I love SDF but some goofy shit would be nice 😆
The catgirl emojis expand the options a bit more
forgetting someone...?
I thought that was a giant spider
Someone does something legal that cuts into our profits!!! Quick do bullshit so it becomes too expensive for them
What is Anna's Archive? What's the context here?
Annas Archive (https://annas-archive.se/) is a search engine for shadow libraries and to some extent a shadow library itself. I usually check AA first when looking for books as it agregates from multiple places, such as z-lib, libgen and archive.org, but will then check them individually if I don't find the book on AA.
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