[10000truths]

Maybe I'm just an old man yelling at clouds, but I always found the use of emoticons and emoji in official documents extremely off putting. If you want to look hip and cool, at least do so only where appropriate - public-facing technical documentation needs to be articulate and maximally accessible.

Not to mention how inconvenient it is to actually add emoji. Chances are that the person who wrote that page didn't draft it from a phone with an easily accessible emoji keyboard, nor from a physical keyboard with emoji bindings. So they'd have to go out of their way to open up an on-screen emoji keyboard, or an emoji webpage, and paste those emojis one by one.

[petee]

No you're not old, you are just not ridiculously young. :)

I agree though, use of emoji outside talking to your friend, to me, is an instant warning of immaturity, and a flag of more to come.

The OP post was horrendous to look at, I'm not sure why anyone thought that it would help with understanding the content.

[solarkraft]

I'm somewhat young (maybe ridiculously so). I'm not a huge fan of emoji and find this page very hard to read (why the hell do you need a pictogram to illustrate a word you just wrote?!), yet I think it's useful for efficient information transfer ("maximal accessibility") for documents to not purely consist of dry, plain walls of text. A few human touches here and there can be effective for navigation within a document through differentiation (not everything looking the same). Emojis in headlines are the easiest way of achieving that.

[krallja]

Ctrl+Cmd+Space brings up an emoji picker on macOS, you don’t have to paste anything

[jmrm]

Also Windows + . in Windows and KDE Plasma (needs to be configured previously), and Control + Shift + E in Gnome.