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This is the most impressive project in Nim I’ve seen yet. Rewriting any major front-end, complete with working authentication and handling idiosyncrasies of the

This is the most impressive project in Nim I’ve seen yet. Rewriting any major front-end, complete with working authentication and handling idiosyncrasies of the private API is a herculean task. For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does, effectively. Kudos to the author for accomplishing this feat!

unsupp0rted 3y ago
> For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does Of course, because if Nitter goes down nobody bats an eye.
- Macha 3y ago
  And the flagship instance of Nitter is unusable more often than not - the fact that it's working today is likely an artifact of people having given up given the week long total outage.
  - zedeus 3y ago
    Maybe you don't use it very often? For months before the recent chaos it was very reliable. The fact that it's working today is only because I fixed it, Twitter didn't change anything.
    - uka 3y ago
      It works great. Don't pay attention to the philosophers. I quit twitter when I discovered it. Thank you.
      - Macha 3y ago
        To be clear, this is not intended to be a dig at the nitter team, I always assumed the software was more their focus than nitter.net
    - Macha 3y ago
      Timelines are usually blank, to the point that I have removed it from the rotation of instances in my browser redirector extension. I assumed this was a result of being rate limited by Twitter. I will admit that since I did remove it from the rotation, I don't see it that often these days, mostly when others link to it and then I navigate to a timeline.
      - tourmalinetaco 3y ago
        I’ve had timelines/tweets fail to load, but a refresh fixed it quickly. If this was a consistent problem did you consider opening an issue to see if they could improve the website?
    - jonwz 3y ago
      Any chance you can re-enable rss?
- matheusmoreira 3y ago
  Nobody? If Nitter goes down Twitter might as well not even exist to me.
  - black_puppydog 3y ago
    this is exactly my experience for the last week. let's see whether I feel the need to update my instance with this patch. for now I'm just like "oh, another twitter link, let me completely ignore it."
    - matheusmoreira 3y ago
      I'll either ignore it or wait until somebody else accesses it and copies the text or takes a screenshot. If nobody does, it's because it's not important enough and I probably don't need to know about it.
  - nunez 3y ago
    Same. I had my Privacy Redirect plugin redirect Twitter to 0.0.0.0 instead of nitter.lacontrevoie.fr after it got killed.
  - JeremyNT 3y ago
    Yeah, and I immediately realized Nitter was back when I saw 100+ unread tweets in my RSS feed. I just marked them all as read and moved on. I guess this Nitter outage may be the thing that finally pushes me to find the people I follow on other platforms.
skulk 3y ago
The frontend uses Karax, which is my favorite frontend/SPA library in any language. It is an absolute joy to use, even if it's a bit rough around the edges. https://github.com/karaxnim/karax https://github.com/karaxnim/karax

unsupp0rted 3y ago

> For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does Of course, because if Nitter goes down nobody bats an eye.

Macha 3y ago
And the flagship instance of Nitter is unusable more often than not - the fact that it's working today is likely an artifact of people having given up given the week long total outage.
- zedeus 3y ago
  Maybe you don't use it very often? For months before the recent chaos it was very reliable. The fact that it's working today is only because I fixed it, Twitter didn't change anything.
  - uka 3y ago
    It works great. Don't pay attention to the philosophers. I quit twitter when I discovered it. Thank you.
    - Macha 3y ago
      To be clear, this is not intended to be a dig at the nitter team, I always assumed the software was more their focus than nitter.net
  - Macha 3y ago
    Timelines are usually blank, to the point that I have removed it from the rotation of instances in my browser redirector extension. I assumed this was a result of being rate limited by Twitter. I will admit that since I did remove it from the rotation, I don't see it that often these days, mostly when others link to it and then I navigate to a timeline.
    - tourmalinetaco 3y ago
      I’ve had timelines/tweets fail to load, but a refresh fixed it quickly. If this was a consistent problem did you consider opening an issue to see if they could improve the website?
  - jonwz 3y ago
    Any chance you can re-enable rss?
matheusmoreira 3y ago
Nobody? If Nitter goes down Twitter might as well not even exist to me.
- black_puppydog 3y ago
  this is exactly my experience for the last week. let's see whether I feel the need to update my instance with this patch. for now I'm just like "oh, another twitter link, let me completely ignore it."
  - matheusmoreira 3y ago
    I'll either ignore it or wait until somebody else accesses it and copies the text or takes a screenshot. If nobody does, it's because it's not important enough and I probably don't need to know about it.
- nunez 3y ago
  Same. I had my Privacy Redirect plugin redirect Twitter to 0.0.0.0 instead of nitter.lacontrevoie.fr after it got killed.
- JeremyNT 3y ago
  Yeah, and I immediately realized Nitter was back when I saw 100+ unread tweets in my RSS feed. I just marked them all as read and moved on. I guess this Nitter outage may be the thing that finally pushes me to find the people I follow on other platforms.

skulk 3y ago

The frontend uses Karax, which is my favorite frontend/SPA library in any language. It is an absolute joy to use, even if it's a bit rough around the edges. https://github.com/karaxnim/karax https://github.com/karaxnim/karax