Good. Perhaps it will encourage some people to not post on Twitter, and use something more appropriate?
One can hope...
Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without an account
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#42I don’t like being logged into Twitter on my Desktop, but I often need to search Twitter. Now it appears I need an account to search?
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#43You seriously should be using Nitter (find an instance that's not widely used so it doesn't get rate-limited as often), and install the Privacy Redirect plugin to redirect all Twitter links to your chosen Nitter instance. The speed and the quality of the UI are improved across the board. The only thing I miss with Nitter is seeing quote tweets.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think any company is obligated to provide unlimited access for free without an account. If you’re trying to scroll deep into conversations or someone’s Tweets, it’s reasonable to expect that you’d need to become a user of the website. Oh of course. But then it should have been that way from the start . Instead they were user-friendly at first, and only once they'd grown eno…
Yes. Also called "growth engineering" and pretty much the basic mode of operation of silicon valley companies.
Also called "being cunty", from a user perspective.
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#45> Unfortunately twitter is going the direction of quora, pinterest, facebook, and medium Don’t forget Reddit. Reddit’s login pop-ups are more aggressive than Twitter’s for me. > Now you can perhaps read ten tweets or replies to a linked tweet without an account before the same thing occurs Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think any company is obligated to provide unlimited access for free without an account.…
And let's not forget the idiotic "This site works better in App" crap that we get on our phones when browsing sites like Linkedin or reddit. No, I don't want to install yet another shitty app. Just let me browse the "net' on my phone directly.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
On a cell phone, I can type "best driveway shovel" on my phone, and it will take me to google. Google will have an overlay that tells me searching for the best driveway shovels is better in an app. I close that overlay. The first hit is twitter. The second is reddit. I skip twitter. I get an overlay telling me to install a reddit app, or continue in the website. I click continue in website. There is an overlay tellin…
Old.reddit.com is the only remotely usable form of the website and seems to have none of the obnoxious popups.
It gives a cookie popup on mobile telling you to go to the new website to accept the cookie popup. Insanity.
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#47Twitter is unusable even with an account. It's 50% ads, 50% vitriol.
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#48> Unfortunately twitter is going the direction of quora, pinterest, facebook, and medium Don’t forget Reddit. Reddit’s login pop-ups are more aggressive than Twitter’s for me. > Now you can perhaps read ten tweets or replies to a linked tweet without an account before the same thing occurs Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think any company is obligated to provide unlimited access for free without an account.…
No company even comes close to the transition that Reddit did that took them from a {clean,simple,dense,power-user friendly} interface to a horrible user-hostile shit show that it is now. The average Reddit user has to reach for a custom third party app on their phone or a browser plug-in that hacks a redirect to the old or third party interface. Quora doesn’t hold a candle.
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#49This really bugs me!
This "join twitter" thing on the scroll is not even the worst experiment in user hostility that they have done.
Much worse was the time that if you clicked a tweet, it displayed that tweet with the "join twitter" dialog box, and if you dismissed it, it just took you back to the original tweet using history hijacking.
That was just bizarre -- how do they expect to sell the idea of twitter to a non-logged-in user if they make one of the most basic actions (navigating to a shared tweet) impossible with deliberate user hostility?
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Also called "growth engineering" and pretty much the basic mode of operation of silicon valley companies.
ackshually we call it "growth hacking". sounds better to investors ;)
> ackshually we call it "growth hacking". sounds better to investors ;)
Which is strange, because the term “hacking” used to set jimmies a’rustlin’ and underwear a’bunchin’ whenever it came up.