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Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

#11

When Reddit started doing this it effectively broke my redditing habit. I know these things are annoying but for anyone who is trying to use social media less... Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram are almost unusable without their apps. They are basically useless if you dont sign in on the browser on your phone. It's great if you want to get off them.

I'm using old.reddit.com, and it's ok. Shame if they would turn that off though.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

#13

When Reddit started doing this it effectively broke my redditing habit. I know these things are annoying but for anyone who is trying to use social media less... Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram are almost unusable without their apps. They are basically useless if you dont sign in on the browser on your phone. It's great if you want to get off them.

I'm using old.reddit.com, and it's ok. Shame if they would turn that off though.

There is also i.reddit.com, which is more mobile friendly than old.reddit.com.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

#14

When Reddit started doing this it effectively broke my redditing habit. I know these things are annoying but for anyone who is trying to use social media less... Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram are almost unusable without their apps. They are basically useless if you dont sign in on the browser on your phone. It's great if you want to get off them.

I'm using old.reddit.com, and it's ok. Shame if they would turn that off though.

What I've noticed is a few of the newer things breaking on it (unsurprisingly). I think over time it'll get to a point where there's enough of these new things where they'll just pull the plug, which is really too bad. Also love it much more than the "new" experience.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

#17

Managements always work toward managing towards what they can measure. I’m sure that daily signups are a metric that they track, hence they’ll prioritize signups even at the cost of user frustration and love, something that’s less tangible. This is the kind of thing that kept me off Quora forever. It’s a great resource but I don’t feel like logging in 100% of the time. So now I just ignore all of their links.

Quora is such a shit show though - what happened there ?

Their algo will just continually blast email you every category you ever clicked on

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

#18
post #9

For people who post tweets, but don't often read tweets, I recommend creating an app to post on your behalf. It is pretty straightforward through their developer tools. That way, you can also save your tweets locally, instead of having to view your own writing through their platform. If you like to read other people's tweets then you don't have any other option except to login, unfortunately.

My use case is archiving historical or noteworthy tweets. My infrastructure up to this point used Wayback Machine to retrieve and store the content, will have to build something now.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

#19

For now, adding the following to your uBlock Origin filters works: twitter.com##.r-zchlnj.r-1xcajam.r-12vffkv.r-1d2f490.r-1p0dtai.r-aqfbo4.css-1dbjc4n twitter.com##html:style(overflow:auto !important) twitter.com##+js(cookie-remover, guest_id)

thanks

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

#20

When Reddit started doing this it effectively broke my redditing habit. I know these things are annoying but for anyone who is trying to use social media less... Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram are almost unusable without their apps. They are basically useless if you dont sign in on the browser on your phone. It's great if you want to get off them.

I'm using old.reddit.com, and it's ok. Shame if they would turn that off though.

The day they turn off old.reddit.com reddit is dead to me. I've been on reddit 10 years and it was hard to understand why they chose this new disastrous design.
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