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Re: Twitter Notes

#31

Post by bpodgursky »

whimsicalism wrote: post #23

They should definitely be using the full width of screen for longer form "notes." I personally would also prefer a modal as opposed to a completely different page.

Honestly, no.

I find HN comments practically unreadable because of the lack of wrapping. The default render width of a tweet is perfectly reasonable. Maybe you could extend it out to the width of a substack or medium post.

But there's nothing natural about stretching a sentence out across 800 horizontal characters. It's just miserable on a good monitor.

Re: Twitter Notes

#33

Post by searchableguy »

bpodgursky wrote: post #31
whimsicalism wrote: post #23

They should definitely be using the full width of screen for longer form "notes." I personally would also prefer a modal as opposed to a completely different page.

Honestly, no. I find HN comments practically unreadable because of the lack of wrapping. The default render width of a tweet is perfectly reasonable. Maybe you could extend it out to the width of a substack or medium post. But there's nothing natural about stretching a sentence out across 800 horizontal characters. It's just miserable on a good monitor.

Why not use https://brianlovin.com/hn/31838049 ?

Re: Twitter Notes

#34

Post by LeoPanthera »

Well, all the links to notes just result in "Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else." for me. I know it says available in "most countries" but I'm right here in California. Is it not available in Twitter's home country?

Re: Twitter Notes

#35

Post by ProfessorLayton »

searchableguy wrote: post #20

In my experience, most people on twitter won't click to read long form content if it opens in a separate view. They won't read past few tweets either. I believe most twitter users don't want to read beyond 280 characters. A thread provides them an opportunity to comment on any 280 characters section they have actually read. They should have provided similar interface to typefully to write long form tweet and a button…

>They won't read past few tweets either

I believe this is because twitter is actively hostile to reading long threads. They'll truncate the middle of a thread, or show "load more tweets" for replies — and then they'll only load just a few more tweets. Want to keep reading? Load a few more tweets at a time. It's miserable.

Re: Twitter Notes

#36

Post by rpastuszak »

randommind wrote: post #27

I don't know, in times when account suspensions and/or removals for political reasons seem progressively more frequent (and arbitrary), it doesn't seem like a great idea to entrust the longer writings to them as well... It seems wiser to maintain separate blogs.

100% agree with you, but as long as they have an API you can access, you can always syndicate your content to Twitter.

Here's an example for my potato.horse site connected to https://twitter.com/yay_psd:

https://github.com/paprikka/yay.psd/blob/main/data/twitter/p...

Most of my users are come from the site and Reddit, but it's one of those things you just set up and forget, so it was worth the hassle.

Re: Twitter Notes

#37

Post by junot »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #34

Well, all the links to notes just result in "Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else." for me. I know it says available in "most countries" but I'm right here in California. Is it not available in Twitter's home country?

I had the same thing happen to me. Page worked after refresh though.

Re: Twitter Notes

#38

Post by hot_gril »

dgs_sgd wrote: post #4

I welcome this. I always hated the long multi-tweet essays and have often just given up on reading them, especially when I'm not logged in I can't even make it to the end before twitter blocks me from scrolling further. As of now it doesn't look like you can reply to a note with another note? That might go a long way for improving debate and discussion.

I still won't bother. No matter how fast of a computer you use, Twitter is annoyingly slow to load and seems to leak memory if you scroll too far.

Re: Twitter Notes

#40

Post by nomilk »

dgs_sgd wrote: post #4

I welcome this. I always hated the long multi-tweet essays and have often just given up on reading them, especially when I'm not logged in I can't even make it to the end before twitter blocks me from scrolling further. As of now it doesn't look like you can reply to a note with another note? That might go a long way for improving debate and discussion.

> I always hated the long multi-tweet essays

I'm very new to twitter but I love them because feedback can be given on a (near) per sentence basis.

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