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Reset the counter. https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1135439789090574338 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1135439789090574338

donatj 4y ago
- Beltalowda 4y ago
  "Fix" what? That the medium or style they choses to express themselves doesn't work well for you? Well, tough; that's your problem, not his. They're not your bitch. The entitlement...
  - donatj 4y ago
    > That the medium or style he choses to express himself doesn't work well for you It doesn't work well for thousands of people, which is why there are always complaints. You can say the exact same things about his post asking them to fix the controller. Oh "the entitlement" and "that's his problem, not the controller manufacturers". We're asking him to fix his posts. He's asking them to fix the controller. When something is suboptimal, you're well within your rights to complain about it. Posting long rants as Twitter threads is suboptimal for the consumers of said threads, just as a controller you can't turn off is suboptimal for the consumer of the controller. Same same and fair game.
    - IE6 4y ago
      generally speaking coming out hot with a "whatever you're doing is wrong and you need to do it the way I want you to do it" is always a hard sell - regardless of how valid your original argument may be
    - delecti 4y ago
      I'd rather read a twitter thread than a medium or substack post. It's not suboptimal for all of the consumers of their tweets.
    - jodrellblank 4y ago
      > "He's asking them to fix the controller." No he isn't, he's fixing it himself. > "When something is suboptimal, you're well within your rights to complain about it." You can complain about it on your own Twitter. Here, it's explicitly against the HN guidelines: "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
    - icelancer 4y ago
      Foone doesn't submit his threads here and he doesn't charge for them. You're not an intended consumer.
- _Microft 4y ago
  > Not to humblebrag or anything, but my favorite part of getting posted on hackernews or reddit is that EVERY SINGLE TIME there's one highly-ranked reply that's "jesus man, this could have been a blog post! why make 20 tweets when you can make one blog post?" > CAUSE I CAN'T MAKE A BLOG POST, GOD DAMN IT. I have ADHD. I have bad ADHD that is being treated, and the treatment is NOT WORKING TERRIBLY WELL. I cannot focus on writing blog posts. it will not happen., https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547904532242437 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547904532242437
  - donatj 4y ago
    You can append to a blog post as you go the same way you can append to a Twitter feed. It's functionally the same, the medium just isn't a threaded hierarchy. There's no reason it has to be posted fully formed as he declares. My own blog posts often have 10+ revisions after I've posted them.
    - icelancer 4y ago
      Or, more simply, you can just consume the product as produced, or not.

donatj 4y ago

Beltalowda 4y ago
"Fix" what? That the medium or style they choses to express themselves doesn't work well for you? Well, tough; that's your problem, not his. They're not your bitch. The entitlement...
- donatj 4y ago
  > That the medium or style he choses to express himself doesn't work well for you It doesn't work well for thousands of people, which is why there are always complaints. You can say the exact same things about his post asking them to fix the controller. Oh "the entitlement" and "that's his problem, not the controller manufacturers". We're asking him to fix his posts. He's asking them to fix the controller. When something is suboptimal, you're well within your rights to complain about it. Posting long rants as Twitter threads is suboptimal for the consumers of said threads, just as a controller you can't turn off is suboptimal for the consumer of the controller. Same same and fair game.
  - IE6 4y ago
    generally speaking coming out hot with a "whatever you're doing is wrong and you need to do it the way I want you to do it" is always a hard sell - regardless of how valid your original argument may be
  - delecti 4y ago
    I'd rather read a twitter thread than a medium or substack post. It's not suboptimal for all of the consumers of their tweets.
  - jodrellblank 4y ago
    > "He's asking them to fix the controller." No he isn't, he's fixing it himself. > "When something is suboptimal, you're well within your rights to complain about it." You can complain about it on your own Twitter. Here, it's explicitly against the HN guidelines: "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
  - icelancer 4y ago
    Foone doesn't submit his threads here and he doesn't charge for them. You're not an intended consumer.
_Microft 4y ago
> Not to humblebrag or anything, but my favorite part of getting posted on hackernews or reddit is that EVERY SINGLE TIME there's one highly-ranked reply that's "jesus man, this could have been a blog post! why make 20 tweets when you can make one blog post?" > CAUSE I CAN'T MAKE A BLOG POST, GOD DAMN IT. I have ADHD. I have bad ADHD that is being treated, and the treatment is NOT WORKING TERRIBLY WELL. I cannot focus on writing blog posts. it will not happen., https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547904532242437 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547904532242437
- donatj 4y ago
  You can append to a blog post as you go the same way you can append to a Twitter feed. It's functionally the same, the medium just isn't a threaded hierarchy. There's no reason it has to be posted fully formed as he declares. My own blog posts often have 10+ revisions after I've posted them.
  - icelancer 4y ago
    Or, more simply, you can just consume the product as produced, or not.