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Hi, content aside, tweet chains posts are terrible to read on any device. And twitter bugs me to log in to track me through the browser. To all the people who
by ok_computer 4y ago
Hi, content aside, tweet chains posts are terrible to read on any device. And twitter bugs me to log in to track me through the browser.
To all the people who think this is the best way to deliver information to their audience please stop.
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- honkdaddy 4y agoWhat medium would you recommend Mr. Ebright use to deliver his message to his 50,000 followers, plus the other several hundred thousand who would have seen it given its popularity? He didn't write this for HN users to read, it's pretty unrealistic for us to expect people format their publishing to fit the preferences of nerdy HN readers.
- xtracto 4y agoA Substack/Medium/Wordpress-online-blog URL is less than 280 chars twitter limit.
- ok_computer 4y agoI agree any of those blogging sites would be a better format, even though I'm not a Medium fan. He's also listed Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers and I understand this isn't their official position but there could be a faculty page or some other publication or editorial site. And he could link to the blog article from his tweet. The downside is it wouldn't have as great viral potential but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. Any page with all the bullet points in one place would serve better than an ephemeral twitter thread. If his followers regard him they may follow the link.
- dang 4y 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
- svnpenn 4y agohttps://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock