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Post by imhoguy »

logicalmonster wrote: post #8

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.

Opening Quora links in a new private tab each time solves the issue for me. But agreed, it sucks.

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Post by smhenderson »

habibur wrote: post #293
eurasiantiger wrote: post #218

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Remind me again, why did we leave IRC?

We need to revive the ad free, commercial interest free Internet of the 90s. It will be small in size, but so was the internet back then. Someone should come up with a pub-sub distribute micro blogging service like how emails work.

pub-sub distribute micro blogging service like how emails work

It's called NNTP

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Post by leephillips »

throw6746 wrote: post #182
CydeWeys wrote: post #152

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They've already rejected doing nothing, as it doesn't work. I want Tesla to give me a free car too, but it ain't happening. At some point a company makes decisions you aren't gonna agree with and your only recourse is to not use them. If that means you can't read Twitter, then that's the price you pay. You aren't "owed" a free Twitter account solely on your own personal terms.

> You aren't "owed" a free Twitter account solely on your own personal terms. It's funny that all those companies are trying to get so big and so central to our lives, to the point many news (including from police precincts or first responders) are only posted on twitter or fb, yet when you point out they shouldn't ask you a phone number to access them it's "they owe you nothing".

But you can’t blame that on Twitter, no matter how much they welcome it and how evil they are. Blame it on unspeakably bad judgement on the part of government employees. Making Twitter the conduit for official communications? I can’t even fathom the mindset.

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Post by dragonwriter »

habibur wrote: post #293
eurasiantiger wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remind me again, why did we leave IRC?

We need to revive the ad free, commercial interest free Internet of the 90s. It will be small in size, but so was the internet back then. Someone should come up with a pub-sub distribute micro blogging service like how emails work.

> Someone should come up with a pub-sub distribute micro blogging service like how emails work.

As well as NNTP (mentioned in a sibling comment), listserves work for that (and don't just work like email, they use email.) And both have been around longer than the web.

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Post by zachrip »

splatcollision wrote: post #231
bastard_op wrote: post #110

So can people please quit posting twitter feeds finally? Some of us still have never used or signed up with twitter, or feel the need to, and really don't want to. Bad enough they removed non-javascript access, since they are permablocked through noscript here, I simply close postings on HN that link there and curse them for bothering. Asking for a login atop that is just a 4x non-starter for "news" links. Yes, some…

It would be great if the community here just started downvoting stories that are twitter links. If it's not worth a blog post somewhere, why should we care?

Some of the highest upvoted content on HN is tweet storms with really awful takes (that driver one yesterday was full of them). I think it's fine to link to quality tweet threads but a lot of them are quite bad.

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Post by m_myers »

zamadatix wrote: post #239
hughrr wrote: post #71

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Yes this. Life is getting progressively better now Twitter, Reddit and Apple pissed me off. I’ve got more time, money and a healthier outlook on life. Now if only I could shake HN.

The noprocrast option in the user settings can help. You can set minaway to a much longer time to avoid checking in constantly.

I did that once, 10 years ago or so. My reddit account is coincidentally 10 years old now. Beware of unintended consequences.

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Post by HWR_14 »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #225
eurasiantiger wrote: post #218

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Remind me again, why did we leave IRC?

Because IRC hasn't meaningfully improved in about 30 years. There have been attempts to make it friendlier with things like IRCCloud, but then the beards just scoff at the idea of a $5/month bouncer-as-a-service and go right back to wondering why the protocol is dying.

What does IRC lack that is an improvement you missed in the last 30 years?

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Post by cm2187 »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #4

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 find that you can get used to a change of habit very quickly. Youtube introduced unblockable commercials for iOS/safari. After 15 years of adblockers and not watching TV, I have developed an intolerance to ads and I just lost the reflex of clicking on any youtube link or going on youtube to find something. Don't really miss it.

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Post by danellis »

turminal wrote: post #247
hk__2 wrote: post #226

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IRC is just a protocol; it’s not immune to these issues (see the last Freenode debacle).

It is immune, precisely because it's a protocol. Freenode is dead but switching to another network is literally as simple as pointing the client to a different domain name.

So the same as the HTTP protocol (i.e. switching from a website like Twitter to another, similar, website).
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