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Yeah, I've never seen any value in Twitter. They should've called it "Public IM" or limited IIRC and make it function well like IM. Even the poor implementation
by nikolay 6y ago
Yeah, I've never seen any value in Twitter. They should've called it "Public IM" or limited IIRC and make it function well like IM. Even the poor implementation of threads in Slack is way better than the perverted version of Twitter.
- folkrav 6y agoApart from being stuck to a single level in depth (which IMHO kind of makes sense in the context of an IM platform), what's that bad about Slack's threads?
- nikolay 6y agoWell, literally, you need to move aside - they took the skeuomorphism of people getting aside to discuss a topic without bothering others too far.
- folkrav 6y agoNot sure what would you have preferred? I can only think of inline, but I'm not sure how well that would have worked in an IM application, where you'd typically expect things to be in chronological order. You basically described the point of having threads in the first place, and I also cannot think of many other existing implementations, so I'm curious.
- saagarjha 6y ago> I've never seen any value in Twitter. Except for the information that doesn't show up on other platforms, which is why it is a frequently linked site here?
- nikolay 6y agoAn ever-increasing number of people uses https://threadreaderapp.com/ https://threadreaderapp.com/ though.
- saagarjha 6y agoI am not arguing that Twitter is the perfect interface for its content, or even that its content is particularly good. I am just saying that it can have value regardless of its (many) faults.
- greggman3 6y agoThat value is in the content, not twitter itself