Comment by patrickyeon

7 years ago

Heh, from foone themself: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1066547670477488128.html

Not to humblebrag or anything, but my favorite part of getting posted on hackernews or reddit is that EVERY SINGLE TIME there's one highly-ranked reply that's "jesus man, this could have been a blog post! why make 20 tweets when you can make one blog post?" CAUSE I CAN'T MAKE A BLOG POST, GOD DAMN IT.

The short story is they are quite open about having ADHD, and that's what causes the long twitter rambles, but also what makes it very difficult to assemble it into a blog post. Every once in a while foone's wife will edit a popular thread into a blog post, examples: https://foone.wordpress.com/

If this seems like a particularly good story to you, maybe you'd like to edit it into a draft for a blog post and gift that to foone?

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wendyshu  7 years ago

Just copy tweets to post?

  • ngold  7 years ago

    I've tried on multiple occasions to go on twitter, but it like trying to read a newspaper with strobe lights as a reading light. How this became a format will haunt humanity for generations. There is no difference in updating a blog versus being forced to open one of the worst applications known to humanity.

    • icelancer  7 years ago

      This is how the majority of young people consume content, when they read at all. I get that people don't like it who grew up on blogs, but it is what it is at this point and it's a lot like yelling at clouds.

voltagex_  7 years ago

I've subscribed to threadreader so I can save posts as PDFs, but I really wish they'd allow me to dump the underlying data as well so it could be put into archive.org.