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Khao on July 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linkmoji – Turn any link into Emoji

I tried linking to the rick roll video (just as a test url) and it breaks because it seems to lowercase everything.

Original url : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Linkmoji url : http://🍕💩.ws/🍍📦🏂🎈🎾🔑

After following the link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqw4w9wgxcq

And then you get a 404 not found

fredley on July 9, 2015 | [–]

I don't think so (at least not all the time), this link works: http://🍕💩.ws/👊🐙🏈👞🐹👍

zatkin on July 9, 2015 | | [–]

Oh God, why did I click that!?

hmhrex on July 9, 2015 | | | [–]

And why do I still sing it?

spuz on July 9, 2015 | | | [–]

The bug's been fixed!

inieves on July 9, 2015 | | [–]

http://💰💰💰.shizz.it

boom!

you have rick astley!

ericnakagawa on July 9, 2015 | [–]

I added support for uppercase after the fact. X_X It's now live.

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