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What? No it wasn't! You used to be able to view entire Twitter threads without being logged in. It was also possible to go to someone's account page and see the
by AlexandrB 2y ago
What? No it wasn't! You used to be able to view entire Twitter threads without being logged in. It was also possible to go to someone's account page and see their posts in reverse chronological order. The latter went away shortly after Musk took over. The former took a little longer, but is now gone as well. In many cases you can't even view a single tweet without the site trying to get you to log in.
- brabel 2y agoI clearly remember it wasn't, they would pop up with a login page as soon as you scrolled down.
- throw-away_42 2y agoMaybe for you, but not for most of the rest of the universe. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/tech/twitter-public-access-restricted/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/tech/twitter-public-access-re...
- 998244353 2y agoI remember it being the case before too. It wasn't unconditional like it is now. For example, I distinctly remember being able to scroll through someone's profile in a normal browser window without being logged in, but in an incognito window, I was immediately told to log in or create an account. They may have had other heuristics too that led to inconsistent behavior between users. So it should not be so surprising if some people report that that happened even though it didn't happen to others.
- saagarjha 2y agoThere was a feature flag for this that rolled out in 2021 or so.
- brabel 2y agoYou forgot this already, I see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33769715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33769715 Selective memory perhaps?
- diffxx 2y agoYes, but you could bypass the login page.