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What is this? Are these tweets? It's like reading a programming language where vast amounts of syntax is optional. This style of blogging is making the world wo

• FemmeAndroid 7y ago
  This is a website that 'rolls up' tweets. Here's the original tweets: https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/927593460642615296 https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/927593460642615296
  • dang 7y ago
    We've changed the URL to that from https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/927593460642615296.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/927593460642615296.html. The community is divided on which interface it prefers, so we usually break the tie by linking to the original source, which the site guidelines call for anyhow. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
• wwarren 7y ago
  Yeah. It is a tweet thread, which is such a bad idea that 3rd party apps have appeared to make reading them easier (threadreader for example). Unfortunately threadreader and its ilk can't make the content any better formatted or grammatically correct..er.
• daddylonglegs 7y ago
  Twitter is a great (as in terrible) example. I only enable javascript for a few websites so - when I click on a link to twitter - I see the twitter page being rendered and then this is all erased and twitter puts up a screen demanding that that I click on a link to see the content. After this click and a further page load I get to see a few hundred characters (the actual message) and a ton of rubbish, all of which was downloaded and rendered the first time round.