Comment by hadlock
5 years ago
Please downvote me, but it's super ironic that someone is writing about "impressive linguistic feats" in a multipart tweet. I can't wait for this fad to die out and be replaced by something that supports long form blogging. Maybe I'm just getting old. Every time I see this kind of thing it just amazes me that we ripped right past blogging, and straight to tweeting. Multipart tweeting, to me, is the ultimate antithesis of a linguistic feat.
Do we have to have this comment on every single twitter post? Jesus, we get it, you don’t like threads, get over it. Either use a workaround so it outputs blog-like post or don’t read it.
But for the love of god, stop complaining about. Every. Single. Post.
Since it's against HN guidelines, I think it's fair to flag such posts at this point.
> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting.
We should have this comment on every single Twitter post, but it should be mandatory that it also includes the ThreadReader link.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1441497498573545478.html
Yes we do have to have this comment until people stop writing things in twitter threads.
> But for the love of god, stop complaining about. Every. Single. Post.
Then stop using Twitter as a way to write longform. :)
Yes, but the OP should have quoted the meat of the article so we don't have to wait for the slowly-loading appearing text to appear on scroll:
>It’s a plain text complete guide to Super Metroid, which is _manually_ fully justified… via word choice.
Yes, they could put that on a blog. It would be cool if visitors on the blog could comment there to interact with the author. Maybe not just at the end but on every paragraph or sentence of their articles, wherever it makes most sense for the comment. Not having to host the blog oneself would take friction out of the process and allow a lot more people to participate, so maybe that's also wanted. While we are at it, an API would be great, since some people might like to automatically collect the content and reformat it to their needs. Somebody make this, please.
It already exists, quite a few in fact, except they are not called "blogging software" and they are not necessarily marketed to "bloggers". There is Slab, Confluence and many others.
I see what you did there. That's Twitter.
It really is a godawful abomination of the modern web. Every time I see a bastard thread emoji or a '1/?' at the end of the tweet I close the tab immediately and never come back. I just know there's going to be some endless screed by some moron who just keeps rambling on and on and won't shut up.
Part of it is to do with the reduced attention span of today's generation of overgrown children who never really reached adulthood in a meaningful way and who make up the majority of internet users. If they see a properly formatted blog article with actual structure and, God forbid, paragraphs, they'll have an immediate visceral reaction of "Eww, too many words!" and run crying to their mommy or safe space, whichever is less effort to get to.
However, if they see a nice little tweet which they can digest without having to go to the effort of actually using their brain, and a nice convenient "show more" button, they'll get sucked in, being spoon-fed one little fun-size morsel of drivel at a time. It's the same insidious dopamine feed that powers time-sink sites like Reddit with its dark-pattern of endless scrolling, keeping you desperately wanting more (in no small part just to get to the end) as each bit of the author's - sorry, tweeter's - latest tract gets revealed to you, bit by bit, but never enough to satisfy the urge. It's by design. Nuke Twitter.
I just don't click on them any more. As soon as I see Twitter I come into the thread to see if someone has posted it in another format. If they haven't, then I just won't see it this time. No big deal. There are countless things I won't see today anyway.