What's with the 🦄?

Sometimes you just want to drop a unicorn on something.

I use it as "I like the content very much", sort of a super like.
I know different people give it different meanings, that's why it's a mythical creature :D

Thanks for asking this! I'm new around here and went searching for an answer immediately: I wanted to make sure I was using it according to its intent.

But it seems like there is no dictated purpose, and people use them variously to mean "super dislike", "super like", and anything in-between or other. 😅

I think I'll avoid using it, and stick with ❤️for things I like, as I haven't yet found someone who interpreted it negatively. For all else, I'll respond with no reaction or a constructive comment; constructive comments seem better than "dislike" reactions. To me, anyways.

I google the meaning of Unicorn and I find this "something that is highly desirable but difficult to find or obtain."

Unicorns are badass, need to say much else?

Rating systems are a pretty interesting problem

I'd be interested to hear @ben or who designed this feature's thoughts. [what does this button do?] buttons can be very informative if used right.

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I've always considered it to mean "Great idea, but you're dreaming, it'll never be implemented" A bit sad if it turns out people actually use it to support an idea as actually being a useful one! Oh the vaguries of emotions! 🤦‍♂️

I tend to use it when I find something extremely good or when I determine that it requires a lot of expertise/skill to write/demo about, I'm picky with my unicorns :P

After researching the topic, I came to the following conclusion:
A developer who can pull off a job from A - Z is apparently called a "🦄 Developer".
So for me, a post that deserves a 🦄 is one that explains a problem perfectly from A to Z without creating new questions.

I always thought that Unicorn was an insulting. It's just a cultural thing. Drug addicted people see unicorns and I thought voting with unicorn was a real dislike for the post owner. But then I read what it really was. Still don't use it :P

Can anyone tell me exactly what unicorn reactions mean??
Because here all the answers are different from each other so i can't decide what exactly it is...
Just i want brief whether it is positive or negative vibes!

Following what rhymes and Angel have said, I always interpreted it as "surreal" content 😄

I always thought of it as marking something as "unique". Just because unicorns are basically a pretty radical animal hybrid.

The devs might misuse it as a popcorn, not a unicorn ;)

I think that the Dev.to team just put that there because they wanted to leave an air of mystery and see what happens.

I always used it to mean extra ordinary content, something way better than a heart. Hear is a unicorn for you.

I mean ...t's just there sitting on the left bar of your screen ...tempted to be clicked on..so why not ?

Lol I just got into Dev.to, and this is the first google result when I search "dev to unicorn" 🦄