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Interesting that none of these twitter articles are making it to the front page.

by UncleOxidant 4y ago

kidme5 4y ago
snvzz 4y ago
That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is: Too many are making it.
- zxlk21e 4y ago
  how are too many making it if none of them are making it?
  - snvzz 4y ago
    >none of them are making it You do realize you're commenting on a story about Twitter that made it, right? Which is proof by counterexample that the statement is false.
    - elunmask 4y ago
      It made it after he made the comment.
      - snvzz 4y ago
        Said comment was a reply to mine. Yet, I only made mine after clicking at the story in the front page.
- jcranmer 4y ago
  Twitter is collapsing so quickly and in such spectacular fashion that it would probably be better to have some sort of permathread that consolidates the latest updates on Twitter. At the rate it's going, Twitter may be spared all of the lawsuits coming its way simply by virtue of not existing by the time the lawsuits can come to fruition.
  - PKop 4y ago
    Website and app working fine for me. Don't really see this "spectacular collapse" everyone seems to wish would happen
    - coldcode 4y ago
      It will until it stops. Then no one will be available to make it go again. Inertia eventually fails.
    - kharak 4y ago
      Have to agree. I’m bewildered by the (social) media reaction so far. People, the app still works. Over a thousand employees will continue to work for Twitter. As far as I understand, Twitter is financially in a terrible state. Huge changes have to happen. Let’s all just wait and see how it will turn out.
      - lijogdfljk 4y ago
        Sure, but the "collapse" is terrible management here lol. Terrible, by the metric of his own inconsistent actions. To suddenly reverse the decision of accidentally laying off 80% of your workforce is hilarious. People aren't saying the app isn't working. If you lay off all of HR will your company still run tomorrow? Of course. Lay off all of engineering will the app still run tomorrow? Of course (most likely lol). The collapse is the implied result of all these terrible decisions. Terrible decisions which imply terrible leadership. And companies can only survive terrible leadership for so long.
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    - themadturk 4y ago
      Yes, but as has been brought up multiple times, for how long? Are those that remain the right people to fix hardware or software failures, which are inevitable? I put in the request to download my data last night -- not because I'm leaving Twitter, but just as a precaution -- and I wonder if it will be fulfilled. I'm sure it's an automated process, but will the systems be running by the time it gets to my request?
humanistbot 4y ago
It's on the front page now.
- asdff 4y ago
  First one in days to be honest, usually they only crack 20 votes yet have three times as many comments.
  - noahtallen 4y ago
    I saw two posts about this situation on the front page last night. Edit, links: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33647882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33647882 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33651048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33651048
sorenjan 4y ago
Apparently Hacker news have some kind of anti-flamewar protection that automatically downwheighs threads with a lot of activity. I don't know how it works or if it's true, but I've seen high activity posts drop like a stone in their rating and quickly go from front page to several pages down.
- MrStonedOne 4y ago
mustacheemperor 4y ago
I had the same thought, but as noahtallen pointed out there's been two on the front page in the last 24 hours, including one with over a thousand points. I'd be interested to hear dang explain how the ranking mechanics are at work in these posts, but I hunch it may simply be because there's not actually much there to engage community interest for very long. The downspiral has been very rapid but it's essentially just been one headline after another. There's only so much speculation to be made about how and why this is happening and only so many jokes to crack about it. And if the discussions are mostly cruft I wouldn't be surprised if they're being downranked. I look forward to seeing some in depth post-mortems and discussions about them here when the dust has settled, but for now it feels more like we're standing around a bonfire and nodding at one another.
ifyoubuildit 4y ago
I'm not sure it is. Is anyone seeing any comments in these threads that they couldn't have predicted before clicking in? It's mostly schadenfreude and naysaying. Which may even be justified, but it kinda makes for dull reading after a short while.

Interesting that none of these twitter articles are making it to the front page.

kidme5 4y ago

snvzz 4y ago

That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is: Too many are making it.

zxlk21e 4y ago
how are too many making it if none of them are making it?
- snvzz 4y ago
  >none of them are making it You do realize you're commenting on a story about Twitter that made it, right? Which is proof by counterexample that the statement is false.
  - elunmask 4y ago
    It made it after he made the comment.
    - snvzz 4y ago
      Said comment was a reply to mine. Yet, I only made mine after clicking at the story in the front page.
jcranmer 4y ago
Twitter is collapsing so quickly and in such spectacular fashion that it would probably be better to have some sort of permathread that consolidates the latest updates on Twitter. At the rate it's going, Twitter may be spared all of the lawsuits coming its way simply by virtue of not existing by the time the lawsuits can come to fruition.
- PKop 4y ago
  Website and app working fine for me. Don't really see this "spectacular collapse" everyone seems to wish would happen
  - coldcode 4y ago
    It will until it stops. Then no one will be available to make it go again. Inertia eventually fails.
  - kharak 4y ago
    Have to agree. I’m bewildered by the (social) media reaction so far. People, the app still works. Over a thousand employees will continue to work for Twitter. As far as I understand, Twitter is financially in a terrible state. Huge changes have to happen. Let’s all just wait and see how it will turn out.
    - lijogdfljk 4y ago
      Sure, but the "collapse" is terrible management here lol. Terrible, by the metric of his own inconsistent actions. To suddenly reverse the decision of accidentally laying off 80% of your workforce is hilarious. People aren't saying the app isn't working. If you lay off all of HR will your company still run tomorrow? Of course. Lay off all of engineering will the app still run tomorrow? Of course (most likely lol). The collapse is the implied result of all these terrible decisions. Terrible decisions which imply terrible leadership. And companies can only survive terrible leadership for so long.
      - deleted 4y ago
        [deleted]
  - themadturk 4y ago
    Yes, but as has been brought up multiple times, for how long? Are those that remain the right people to fix hardware or software failures, which are inevitable? I put in the request to download my data last night -- not because I'm leaving Twitter, but just as a precaution -- and I wonder if it will be fulfilled. I'm sure it's an automated process, but will the systems be running by the time it gets to my request?

humanistbot 4y ago

It's on the front page now.

asdff 4y ago
First one in days to be honest, usually they only crack 20 votes yet have three times as many comments.
- noahtallen 4y ago
  I saw two posts about this situation on the front page last night. Edit, links: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33647882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33647882 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33651048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33651048

sorenjan 4y ago

Apparently Hacker news have some kind of anti-flamewar protection that automatically downwheighs threads with a lot of activity. I don't know how it works or if it's true, but I've seen high activity posts drop like a stone in their rating and quickly go from front page to several pages down.

MrStonedOne 4y ago

mustacheemperor 4y ago

I had the same thought, but as noahtallen pointed out there's been two on the front page in the last 24 hours, including one with over a thousand points. I'd be interested to hear dang explain how the ranking mechanics are at work in these posts, but I hunch it may simply be because there's not actually much there to engage community interest for very long. The downspiral has been very rapid but it's essentially just been one headline after another. There's only so much speculation to be made about how and why this is happening and only so many jokes to crack about it. And if the discussions are mostly cruft I wouldn't be surprised if they're being downranked. I look forward to seeing some in depth post-mortems and discussions about them here when the dust has settled, but for now it feels more like we're standing around a bonfire and nodding at one another.

ifyoubuildit 4y ago

I'm not sure it is. Is anyone seeing any comments in these threads that they couldn't have predicted before clicking in? It's mostly schadenfreude and naysaying. Which may even be justified, but it kinda makes for dull reading after a short while.