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Off-topic rant: I really hate how Twitter has popularized this devolved style of communicating by a flurry of fragments so much that we now have services like T

Off-topic rant: I really hate how Twitter has popularized this devolved style of communicating by a flurry of fragments so much that we now have services like Thread reader (which I appreciate!) to undo that mess, and to make communication coherent again.

nicpottier 8y ago
Ya.. this is an especially funny case because I can't imagine Russ wrote this adhoc on Twitter, this looks like something very much prepared, then dribbled out, which makes me a bit sad for the world.
- gant 8y ago
  Twitter has that feature where you can post multiple tweets in a chain. Honestly, why have a character limit at all at this point...
  - sigjuice 8y ago
    So it is accessible over SMS?
    - gant 8y ago
      Oh right, that's a thing (that was never available here in Germany).
    - greiskul 8y ago
      How many users actually use it over SMS though?
swah 8y ago
The great rants in Usenet and later Google Groups were awesome and searchable. I miss those.
amdavidson 8y ago
I really dislike reading the tweets in this bizarre thread reader. The page width is much to wide and the, line spacings are inappropriate for the size of the font, and that's not to mention the lack of contrast. Even worse, I could not find a single link back to Twitter, the canonical source. It's just as easy to read on the twitter website, it provides additional context, and allows for interaction. https://twitter.com/_rsc/status/1022588240501661696 https://twitter.com/_rsc/status/1022588240501661696