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I made an honest effort to read that and I just couldn't. I actually can't imagine any kind of reading medium that's worse. There's chunks of text interlaced w
by preommr 6y ago
I made an honest effort to read that and I just couldn't.
I actually can't imagine any kind of reading medium that's worse. There's chunks of text interlaced with a bunch of visual noise, random images, links to separate threads which are huge images and bigger than the surrounding text.
- edw 6y agoAmen. Not to mention the non sequitur replies from randos trying to insert themselves, grasping for fifteen milliseconds of microcelebrity. I recently read HG Wells’s Island of Dr Moreau; the protagonist describes one of Moreau’s creatures, who specialized in Big Think: big-worded, incoherent rambling intended to confuse and impress in equal parts. The argot of Twitter, in other words.
- warent 6y agoFormatted thread version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1264341436138270720.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1264341436138270720.html
- JohnTHaller 6y agoTwitter is awful for conveying longer text. Here's an unroll of it: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1264341436138270720.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1264341436138270720.html The key text is: @threadreaderapp unroll If you reply to a Tweet thread with that, it'll unroll it and create a link like that.
- QuercusMax 6y agoYou can also just go to the threadreaperapp website and paste in the tweet url.
- allzeros 6y agoI really, truly wish HN would moderate and remove comments about a link's medium. Every single post here has at least one person complaining about the layout of the source. Every time. It's exhausting. I hate it. It contributes absolutely nothing, and I don't know if anyone's noticed, but people keep using Twitter! Gasp! If you hate Twitter so much, reach out to the tweet author and ask them to publish elsewhere. If you hate Medium, e-mail the author and ask them to switch platforms. But dear God, can we please stop complaining about it in HN comments? Either read it or don't. Please just stop.
- ethanwillis 6y agoIt's a valid point of discussion. What isn't is you actually complaining. You could take your own advice and write to Dang about the moderation?
- tomc1985 6y agoSqueaky wheels get the oil. Sorry dude...
- Waterluvian 6y agoHow on earth can this individual’s speech vex you to such an extent that you need it silenced?
- ardit33 6y agoIt adds 0 to the conversation. It is very weird, almost borderline autistic behaviour... 90% of links, have some kind of: "doesn't work on my mobile... format sucks, i don't like the colors, etc... etc.." comment. It is pure infantile/juvenile bikesheding and distracting from the point of the conversation/link that has nothing to do with formatting.
- dang 6y agoWe could consider adding a guideline asking people not to post such things. The problem is that sometimes such comments are helpful for the owner of a site, who either shared their own work or happened to be on here when someone else did.
- dang 6y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23647028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23647028.