4 ms·
It seems a lot of reddit communities are starting to block xitter as it's painful to use now without an account. Should HN do the same?
by Cub3 2y ago
It seems a lot of reddit communities are starting to block xitter as it's painful to use now without an account. Should HN do the same?
- loeg 2y agoNah. I just wanted to see a source I trusted to be legitimate before sharing a sensational story.
- frinxor 2y agoif its on front page of HN already w/ hundreds of votes, i think its fair to assume its legitimate regardless of the source.
- loeg 2y agoTrue looking nonsense floats to the top of HN semi-regularly; it's not a good enough metric.
- kernal 2y agoWhat far left sources do you consider “trusted”?
- loeg 2y agoI don't think this is responsive to my comment. I'm happy to trust reporting from NYT, Reuters, AP, WSJ, Wapo, Bloomberg, major regional newspapers... it's not a super high or politicized bar. Just something other than "a single twitter account."
- psygn89 2y agoNo. Let us decide how we want to handle it. Most of us could handle it ourselves through scripts and extensions if it really bothered us anyway.
- hbbio 2y agoOf course not, the tweet here is _the_ original source for that news
- easterncalculus 2y agoThe main reason all the subs made this change today is because of the elon nazi salute, not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents.
- dmix 2y ago> not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents. Yep, Twitter has had aggressive authentication gating for almost 2yrs now and HN frequently has Twitter links
- bigmattystyles 2y agoAm I remembering correctly that when Elon first took over, he took that gate down because of his whole free speech thing. I'm guessing they re-instated it as soon as it hit the bottom line. Makes me wonder if government should still rely on it for comms.
- dmix 2y agoOne of the first things Twitter did post Elon was remove sign in gating then I guess the bankers pressed Elon and it went back up. Can't always do everything you want in business, I guess. Bills come first.
- petters 2y agoWasn't it because of extensive scraping?
- Geee 2y agoI think it was removed by geohot when he was in the house, but then reinstated after a while. I remember him railing against it.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- thih9 2y agoHN often has twitter links when this is the primary source; in that case in comments there are usually links to mirrors or threadreader. Here twitter is not the main source, there are better ones (both better quality and more user friendly). I would like a rule to avoid submissions that are login walled unless this is the primary source and an open mirror is available.
- weberer 2y ago>it's painful to use now without an account. Now??? Its been just as painful to use without an account for around 10 years now.
- tombert 2y agoNo, it's worse now. Back in 2017, I could still read public profiles, their tweets, and look at the replies, all without logging in. Now I can't even look at an account page without logging in.