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Is there any browser extension that turns Twitter threads into reddit like simple looking tree-view?

by yewenjie 5y ago

mmmmkay 5y ago
came here to say this. This would be great as a browser extension.
- paulgb 5y ago
  https://treeverse.app/ https://treeverse.app/
  - mmmmkay 5y ago
    the real MVP. Thanks!
  - ssalka 5y ago
    ^I have been using this for a long time, very positive experience with it (maybe gets a bit after excessive expanding/branching on a large thread), and it works with tweets older than 7 days...
gavinray 5y ago
Also came here to ask this. Imageboard style replies would be fine too -- where it's flat and there's a single top post and the way replies work is that they "link" to the post number of the person they are replying to and clicking the post number link jumps you to that post. Basically anything but how Twitter currently does it. I've been using computers literally since I was 3 years old and I still don't understand how to navigate and use their UI.
- kawfey 5y ago
  something that did this for email would be amazing as well. I subscribe to dozens of oldschool ham radio forums, which get threaded to all hell and go on for weeks and months. the native mailing list archiver (like groups.io or mailman using hyperkitty[0] or worse, not [1]) is just chaos. Very hard to read, and everyone email clients decide differently how to format text, whitespace, and previous replies so some messages will be miles long containing the entire context of the message before them. There has to be something out there that turns email forums into a reddit- or HN-like threaded/indented interface. [0]https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/amsat-bb@amsat.org/thread/MPCTWAEPG5OQNMXQB3CXJPP6EEMAXVBJ/ https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/amsat-bb@amsat.org... [1]lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
  "Basically anything but how Twitter currently does it." This is what I use when I need to look at a Twitter page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28071491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28071491 Saved in a script called "twt", usage as follows twt username |twt > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm Although I use a text-only browser not Firefox so its designed for that. Its not perfect but its better than anything else Ive seen short of https://github.com/twintproject/twint https://github.com/twintproject/twint and its still faster and smaller than installing Python. The future of the web could be that users request JSON and then users create a page to their liking, client-side, using their own Javascript (or whatever language they want to use). As it stands, on todays web a "tech" company, often using Javascript, causes the users browser to request the JSON and then more downloaded Javascript, not controlled by the user, creates a user-hostile page for the user to consume the JSON. Its a Rube Goldberg machine designed for tracking and advertising, not users. Imagine if the user conscisouly requests the JSON and is then in control of designing the page for herself. What were tweets but short strings of text. Hard to believe that now looking at a Twitter page. Thats because the user isnt in control of the design. Remember the "tech" company does not own the data. Its public information. User-generated content wrapped in user-hostile, developer-generated markup.

Is there any browser extension that turns Twitter threads into reddit like simple looking tree-view?

mmmmkay 5y ago

came here to say this. This would be great as a browser extension.

paulgb 5y ago
https://treeverse.app/ https://treeverse.app/
- mmmmkay 5y ago
  the real MVP. Thanks!
- ssalka 5y ago
  ^I have been using this for a long time, very positive experience with it (maybe gets a bit after excessive expanding/branching on a large thread), and it works with tweets older than 7 days...

gavinray 5y ago

Also came here to ask this. Imageboard style replies would be fine too -- where it's flat and there's a single top post and the way replies work is that they "link" to the post number of the person they are replying to and clicking the post number link jumps you to that post. Basically anything but how Twitter currently does it. I've been using computers literally since I was 3 years old and I still don't understand how to navigate and use their UI.

kawfey 5y ago
something that did this for email would be amazing as well. I subscribe to dozens of oldschool ham radio forums, which get threaded to all hell and go on for weeks and months. the native mailing list archiver (like groups.io or mailman using hyperkitty[0] or worse, not [1]) is just chaos. Very hard to read, and everyone email clients decide differently how to format text, whitespace, and previous replies so some messages will be miles long containing the entire context of the message before them. There has to be something out there that turns email forums into a reddit- or HN-like threaded/indented interface. [0]https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/amsat-bb@amsat.org/thread/MPCTWAEPG5OQNMXQB3CXJPP6EEMAXVBJ/ https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/amsat-bb@amsat.org... [1]lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
"Basically anything but how Twitter currently does it." This is what I use when I need to look at a Twitter page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28071491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28071491 Saved in a script called "twt", usage as follows twt username |twt > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm Although I use a text-only browser not Firefox so its designed for that. Its not perfect but its better than anything else Ive seen short of https://github.com/twintproject/twint https://github.com/twintproject/twint and its still faster and smaller than installing Python. The future of the web could be that users request JSON and then users create a page to their liking, client-side, using their own Javascript (or whatever language they want to use). As it stands, on todays web a "tech" company, often using Javascript, causes the users browser to request the JSON and then more downloaded Javascript, not controlled by the user, creates a user-hostile page for the user to consume the JSON. Its a Rube Goldberg machine designed for tracking and advertising, not users. Imagine if the user conscisouly requests the JSON and is then in control of designing the page for herself. What were tweets but short strings of text. Hard to believe that now looking at a Twitter page. Thats because the user isnt in control of the design. Remember the "tech" company does not own the data. Its public information. User-generated content wrapped in user-hostile, developer-generated markup.