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Aside, why is this shared in a very very long weird GIF and not a video. (can't pause/seek)
[1]: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/FV3mdpEXoAIrkA1.mp4
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.
It is just so annoying that they would do such a thing, I am sure that they have a/b tested it, I don't care it drives me insane, just make it work properly tho I am sure that they have also taken onto account people like me whom despise it, yet not enough to leave the platform
Just an overall worsening of user experience
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.
> Hello. Hi. Do you have a moment to talk about porgs?
> Yes. Porgs, the cute things seen in Star Wars Episodes VII and VIII.
> These.
> (Image of porg)
> Many people might look at this face and see an adorable CGI workaround for the puffins on Skellig Michael, aka Ahch-To. I see a cute, charming, complete menace to the galaxy’s ecology as we know it.
A Twitter thread would have started out with something like: "Porgs, the adorable CGI workaround for puffins, are a complete menace to the galaxy's ecology as we know it."
So much more direct and to the point. Sometimes, less is more.
Aside, why is this shared in a very very long weird GIF and not a video. (can't pause/seek)
I was curious about this too and thought it must be a massive GIF. However it's not actually a GIF, it's an MP4 video[1], I wonder why it's mislabelled as a GIF. [1]: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/FV3mdpEXoAIrkA1.mp4
I get why they have been working on this (ppl's thread posting out of control) but making longform posts content live on / inside the platform reaks of Facebook walled garden, or Medium etc. Should be encouraging ppl to have blogs or post on urls and just link to them. I dunno, it's annoying direction.
Just an opinion.
It seems that self hosted blogs are out with this new Twitter Notes feature, I can even see that Medium is pretty much in trouble here as well. Is there any point to starting a self hosted blog now that this exists for non technical people?
I love that the mobile website forces me to use the app and now then you click a Note in the app it opens it in the browser.