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You said this much more constructively that I might - I really dislike when people post long form stuff on X/Twitter. For those who may not know you can reply t

You said this much more constructively that I might - I really dislike when people post long form stuff on X/Twitter. For those who may not know you can reply to a tweet with “@threadreaderapp unroll” to have a reconstructed doc sent to you. The bot will reply directly to you and only you after the unrolling is complete. Hope that helps someone.

bazzargh 2y ago
I know this one has been fixed, but I also find those an annoyance - more so because if you're not logged in on twitter, you only see the first tweet, not the thread. So rather than get irritated when I click through stories, I block the links on HN with ublock-origin rules like so: news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=twitter.com"]) news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=twitter.com"])+tr news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=x.com"]) news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=x.com"])+tr news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=medium.com"]) news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=medium.com"])+tr 2 rules each because the replies and the story titles don't share a common parent element. eg right now I can tell from the numbers beside the stories that number 23 is missing; but otherwise HN looks the same. The same trick works for google search results; I have rules like the ones below to block less useful tutorial sites when I'm looking for python/js docs: google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://www.w3schools"]) google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://www.geeksforgeeks"]) google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://realpython.com"]) google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://www.programiz"]) google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://www.datacamp"]) Hope this helps folk too; I'm not going to fight a battle over links to these sites (and others I've blocked), I'm just trying to improve my own experience of the site.
- naitgacem 2y ago
  I do something similar with Google search results. I hide results from Pinterest, Quora, TikTok, ...
  - sunaookami 2y ago
    I can recommend uBlacklist for that: https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs also supports other search engines
tjoff 2y ago
That requires you to have a twitter-account though...

bazzargh 2y ago

I know this one has been fixed, but I also find those an annoyance - more so because if you're not logged in on twitter, you only see the first tweet, not the thread. So rather than get irritated when I click through stories, I block the links on HN with ublock-origin rules like so: news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=twitter.com"]) news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=twitter.com"])+tr news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=x.com"]) news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=x.com"])+tr news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=medium.com"]) news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=medium.com"])+tr 2 rules each because the replies and the story titles don't share a common parent element. eg right now I can tell from the numbers beside the stories that number 23 is missing; but otherwise HN looks the same. The same trick works for google search results; I have rules like the ones below to block less useful tutorial sites when I'm looking for python/js docs: google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://www.w3schools"]) google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://www.geeksforgeeks"]) google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://realpython.com"]) google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://www.programiz"]) google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://www.datacamp"]) Hope this helps folk too; I'm not going to fight a battle over links to these sites (and others I've blocked), I'm just trying to improve my own experience of the site.

naitgacem 2y ago
I do something similar with Google search results. I hide results from Pinterest, Quora, TikTok, ...
- sunaookami 2y ago
  I can recommend uBlacklist for that: https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs also supports other search engines

tjoff 2y ago

That requires you to have a twitter-account though...