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I love foone's threads, and the tweet format gives them a great sequential format.

SquareWheel 5y ago
I've never heard anybody say they like these kinds of threads before. Maybe it's better on mobile, but Twitter makes it very difficult to browse on desktop.
- martijnvds 5y ago
  How do they show up for you? For me (on desktop) it looks like a list of tweets, one after another, sometimes with a "Load more of this thread" link in the middle.
  - kevincox 5y ago
    For me they show up like that as well. But I still find that the format gives a weird stuttering to the conversation and adds so much "chrome" noise around the actual content. In general I don't click twitter links on HN because I find the format painful for anything but short content. However I do make an exception for Foone as they have a lot of interesting stuff.
- miguelmurca 5y ago
  Can we just have a sticky on every foone post on HN to tell people to stop complaining about it being a Twitter thread? Maybe then Foone himself [wouldn't hate being featured on Hacker News so much][0]. Not to mention he has a perfectly good reason to use Twitter threads (which he explains over and over): he has ADHD and it's a way to cope with it. [0]: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1372945388664066061?s=20 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1372945388664066061?s=20
  - ydant 5y ago
    And unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1372945388664066061.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1372945388664066061.html
  - wendelscardua 5y ago
    *themself *they have
    - TaylorAlexander 5y ago
      Thank you from another they/them!
    - miguelmurca 5y ago
      my bad, sorry about that. I think it's too late to edit? The button's no longer there.
  - SquareWheel 5y ago
    I don't really see how typing into Twitter's UI is any different than typing into a Notepad file. Just type the thought and hit <enter>. Any editing beyond that might be appreciated but isn't required.
- ydant 5y ago
  I love his stream of consciousness threads, but I always "unroll" them: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1387999563382857729.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1387999563382857729.html I mainly don't want the rest of Twitter added into my experience or life, so this helps immensely.
NikolaNovak 5y ago
That is fascinating, genuinely! I would've assumed that's the one universally reviled thing in the world (awkward stuttery twitter threads, as opposed to just an article/blog), but my assumptions are challenged again (always a good thing :).
rbanffy 5y ago
Foone’s brain is a fascinating one.

I've never heard anybody say they like these kinds of threads before. Maybe it's better on mobile, but Twitter makes it very difficult to browse on desktop.

martijnvds 5y ago
How do they show up for you? For me (on desktop) it looks like a list of tweets, one after another, sometimes with a "Load more of this thread" link in the middle.
- kevincox 5y ago
  For me they show up like that as well. But I still find that the format gives a weird stuttering to the conversation and adds so much "chrome" noise around the actual content. In general I don't click twitter links on HN because I find the format painful for anything but short content. However I do make an exception for Foone as they have a lot of interesting stuff.
miguelmurca 5y ago
Can we just have a sticky on every foone post on HN to tell people to stop complaining about it being a Twitter thread? Maybe then Foone himself [wouldn't hate being featured on Hacker News so much][0]. Not to mention he has a perfectly good reason to use Twitter threads (which he explains over and over): he has ADHD and it's a way to cope with it. [0]: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1372945388664066061?s=20 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1372945388664066061?s=20
- ydant 5y ago
  And unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1372945388664066061.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1372945388664066061.html
- wendelscardua 5y ago
  *themself *they have
  - TaylorAlexander 5y ago
    Thank you from another they/them!
  - miguelmurca 5y ago
    my bad, sorry about that. I think it's too late to edit? The button's no longer there.
- SquareWheel 5y ago
  I don't really see how typing into Twitter's UI is any different than typing into a Notepad file. Just type the thought and hit <enter>. Any editing beyond that might be appreciated but isn't required.
ydant 5y ago
I love his stream of consciousness threads, but I always "unroll" them: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1387999563382857729.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1387999563382857729.html I mainly don't want the rest of Twitter added into my experience or life, so this helps immensely.

NikolaNovak 5y ago

That is fascinating, genuinely! I would've assumed that's the one universally reviled thing in the world (awkward stuttery twitter threads, as opposed to just an article/blog), but my assumptions are challenged again (always a good thing :).

rbanffy 5y ago

Foone’s brain is a fascinating one.