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It needs to be short - there is already a limit that worked well - why bikeshed it more?
by stagas 2mo ago
It needs to be short - there is already a limit that worked well - why bikeshed it more?
- CitrusFruits 2mo agoI think this is the opposite of bikeshedding, it's literally a core feature and constraint.
- supermatt 2mo agoA limit that worked well for who? Almost every twitter/x post submitted to HN has people labelling their posts as "X of Y" threads, using images as text, or using pro account posts. You can see it yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com Ive just looked at 30 and each of them exceed 280 chars by far.
- Retr0id 2mo agoIt works well for microbloggers.
- supermatt 2mo agoBut clearly not the microbloggers on twitter/x, Bluesky, etc, who use the patterns I mentioned.
- Retr0id 2mo agoThose are definitionally not microbloggers. It's ok for a platform explicitly for microblogging to not cater to their macroblogging desires.
- supermatt 2mo agoDefinitionally not? "Microblogs, for example on Twitter..." https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/microblog https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/microblo... "Some popular social networks such as X (formerly Twitter), Threads, Tumblr, Mastodon, and Bluesky can be viewed as collections of microblogs." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging