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dsr_ 5y ago
Everything interesting on twitter takes more than one tweet. I wonder if there's a place for "fast Usenet", where you can write a message of arbitrary length with some markdownish syntax, let it be flooded to anybody subscribed to that group, and automatically drop into a searchable no-new-comments archive after, say, a week.
- exikyut 5y ago
  Curious why your comment got collapsed, it's very interesting. Genuine question: why archive? While I don't really have a substantive list, I very often come across archived threads on here and elsewhere that I'd like to respond to. "Wow this is awes--" "oh it's from 2016". I guess I just don't understand the hate against necroposting. If there's a thread out there that has exactly the context and disposition I was looking for, _let me respond to it_. In a lot of cases I don't actually care if any reply(s) take 4 years to come through!
  - dsr_ 5y ago
    Why archive? Because history is good. Why the anti-necroposting provision? Because if it's really relevant, having you jump through the additional hoop of quoting the good bit and copy-pasting into a new thread not only forces you to put a little bit of thought into it, but also prevents threads from being months or years (or decades) long and thus only being accessible to people who have read the whole darn thing. In my experience in Usenet, conversations go off topic remarkably quickly.
FabHK 5y ago
Single page, and accessible without JavaScript. Thanks.
- MayeulC 5y ago
  I also like nitter for this. Of course, you have to use a non-ratelimited instance, but there are a few to pick from.
neop1x 5y ago
Maybe HN should append [twitter tale] or something like that to the title as they do for [video] and [pdf]. Then I would first try to find a one-page transcript in a comment...

dsr_ 5y ago

Everything interesting on twitter takes more than one tweet. I wonder if there's a place for "fast Usenet", where you can write a message of arbitrary length with some markdownish syntax, let it be flooded to anybody subscribed to that group, and automatically drop into a searchable no-new-comments archive after, say, a week.

exikyut 5y ago
Curious why your comment got collapsed, it's very interesting. Genuine question: why archive? While I don't really have a substantive list, I very often come across archived threads on here and elsewhere that I'd like to respond to. "Wow this is awes--" "oh it's from 2016". I guess I just don't understand the hate against necroposting. If there's a thread out there that has exactly the context and disposition I was looking for, _let me respond to it_. In a lot of cases I don't actually care if any reply(s) take 4 years to come through!
- dsr_ 5y ago
  Why archive? Because history is good. Why the anti-necroposting provision? Because if it's really relevant, having you jump through the additional hoop of quoting the good bit and copy-pasting into a new thread not only forces you to put a little bit of thought into it, but also prevents threads from being months or years (or decades) long and thus only being accessible to people who have read the whole darn thing. In my experience in Usenet, conversations go off topic remarkably quickly.

FabHK 5y ago

Single page, and accessible without JavaScript. Thanks.

MayeulC 5y ago
I also like nitter for this. Of course, you have to use a non-ratelimited instance, but there are a few to pick from.

neop1x 5y ago

Maybe HN should append [twitter tale] or something like that to the title as they do for [video] and [pdf]. Then I would first try to find a one-page transcript in a comment...