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Fascinating analysis, but sigh having to read it in individual tweets.

• dang 5y ago
  "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • blunte 5y ago
    Understood, but the hope is that if enough people complain, the practices may change for the better. Over time, the tweet-thread stories appear more frequently. If that and other reader-hostile posts continue to become more common, we'll be left with NYT, Medium, WP, and Twitter as our only links. HN will go the way of Slashdot and Digg...
    • dang 5y ago
      That hope is based on a misunderstanding. There's no human consciousness deciding on such 'practices' - it's just a stochastic cloud, as are the complaints. Stochastic clouds don't listen to stochastic clouds. Even if that weren't true, it would still be a bad trade for HN to put anything other than discussion quality at the top of the priority list. That would be a much faster track to the deterioration of the site.
  • AlchemistCamp 5y ago
    FWIW, I found this complaint a useful heads up. For back-button breakage and paywalls, they're even more useful since I never want to visit the link in those cases. With twitter threads, it depends on the device I'm on.