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Before jumping in and complaining about the Twitter format, jump to the bottom of the twitter thread where someone has almost certainly unrolled it. And remembe
by spcebar 5y ago
Before jumping in and complaining about the Twitter format, jump to the bottom of the twitter thread where someone has almost certainly unrolled it. And remember Foone hates being linked on hacker news and didn't ask to be here.
- globular-toast 5y agoHow do I get to the bottom? It seems to have doom scrolling.
- mellavora 5y agowell, obviously, you use the scroll wheel .. on your . ... ...
- mekkkkkk 5y agoNitpick: You probably meant to write "endless scroll" or "infinite scroll". "Doom scrolling" is a verb for obsessively browsing bad news.
- Lammy 5y agoYou can't have the behavior without the mechanism. To me "doom scrolling" is infinite scrolling plus algorithmically-sorted feed, way worse than infinitely-scrolling a chronological feed where people will stop and go do something else as soon as they see anything for a second time.
- Ensorceled 5y agoBut that is NOT what it means to everybody else, so you will confuse people if you use it "your" way.
- tomrod 5y agoWhy does the author's desire for community discussion factor in -- is that internet etiquette now?
- kristofferR 5y agoNo, of course not, that would be incredibly stupid. If you don't want to get published then don't publish.
- burnished 5y agoI think that the important bit is that if you've got vitriol to spill about the twitter format that you keep it sealed. I'm guessing you don't care, which is right and good, but some people get upset (and presumably inform the authors) about twitter style posts.
- XaspR8d 5y agoI assumed it was just being used as additional evidence that you shouldn't tie any frustration with this post/its format to original original author.
- Ensorceled 5y agoThink of it like those "Please respect our neighbours" signs that bars post outside their establishment.
- OGWhales 5y agohttps://nitter.net/Foone/status/1146135405793669121 https://nitter.net/Foone/status/1146135405793669121
- city41 5y agoIt looks like you need to be logged in now to do that, which is a relatively recent change.
- stinkytaco 5y agoOK, I did as suggested. Now can I complain about the Twitter format?
- detaro 5y agoNo. > Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 5y agoPlease don't post off-topic comments that mirror the off-topic comments you're complaining about. It does about the same amount of damage to the thread. (I've marked this subthread offtopic now.)