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... I THINK I just upvoted you, which was my intention, but I'm on mobile and am also not sure if I downvoted you. If so, my bad: this is a great comment.
I don't think HN has downvotes...
Steve is definitely faaaar above that threshold.
> Tweets may contain newlines, and there doesn’t seem to be any limit to how many. 140
138 rather, because of stripped space. Edit: Actually fewer because consecutive newlines are reduced to two. so like...2/3 * 140 roughly
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I get what you're saying but I don't think we should hold up Reddit as a gold standard of accessibility. I'm fairly technically proficient and I have a hard time figuring out how to "onboard" myself to Reddit and to understand the whole system. It's relatively intimidating. If we want to stick to text-only, I think HN is actually a better example. Of course, Facebook is really the pinnacle of broad accessibility.
One thing i like about Reddit is that you can temporarily collapse a noisy thread so you don't have to scroll past it.
> On one end of the spectrum you have tools like Notepad, where the only easter egg is that pressing F5 inserts the current time. I wonder how many people reading this just opened Notepad to try this.
Ctrl+Windows logo key+Tab
Probably not in Windows 10, where the interface was made to look More Like Mobile.
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Maybe Twitters "UI" is so messy is because its text. People can make up any convent they want. Like signing posts with ^.
Nah, its messy because cloudcookoolander ui designers. Notice how if you click a tweet in the timeline, you do not get a overlay to show the conversation. Nope, it push away the tweets below to make room. Then when you click anywhere else on the site the conversation collapse back, shifting the position of surrounding tweets once more. Similarly, the only way to see a image full size is to basically drag and drop it…
These interactions may be convoluted, and at times surprising, but at least they're deterministic. This (the fact it's deterministic) is what makes Twitter so useful for me, and what drove me away from Facebook (with its stochastic Timeline).
Don't worry, they're working hard to change that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11048523
Just recently they've also censored the #whichhillary hashtag.
The fact that twitter execs fundraise for Hillary Clinton must have no bearing on this, right?
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One thing i like about Reddit is that you can temporarily collapse a noisy thread so you don't have to scroll past it.
I was just thinking of commenting about the lack of collapsing threads on HN as well. Nice to see I'm not the only one who's missing it here. (Especially if the most upvoted comment is not interesting to me, but resulted in a lot of conversation)
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Don't worry, they're working hard to change that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11048523
They also constantly censor their own platform to fit the narrative of those running it. They've kicked out and muted multiple users for being conservative. They mute or remove 'problematic' hashtags like #JeSuiMilo Just recently they've also censored the #whichhillary hashtag. The fact that twitter execs fundraise for Hillary Clinton must have no bearing on this, right?