I'll be stepping back from leading product for X

Post by what » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 2:02 AM UTC

xboxnolifes wrote: post #75

jjcm wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The only way to prevent your tweets from being recommended to random people is to lock your account, and that makes it pointless to reply to people who don't follow you or to like their tweets because they don't see anything you do. Isn't the same true of hackernews though?

HN isn't a bunch of disconnected communities that sometimes overlap due to algorithmic feeds. It's one community with one front-page.

Post by daveidol » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 2:08 AM UTC

ActionHank wrote: post #98

mmonaghan wrote: post #57

People love hating on x and nikita but both the app & web experience have improved dramatically over the last year+. He's done a great job in a year and there seems to be even more internal stuff he's improved that we haven't seen.

That must be why xcancel exists, because it was such a pleasant experience.

Post by dmix » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 2:09 AM UTC

solid_fuel wrote: post #83

mmonaghan wrote: post #57

People love hating on x and nikita but both the app & web experience have improved dramatically over the last year+. He's done a great job in a year and there seems to be even more internal stuff he's improved that we haven't seen.

The web experience has improved? You can’t even view a thread any more without being logged in or using a 3rd party site. They’ve actively made the web experience unusable for most people. But considering they’ve also drastically reduced the quality of content on the platform, one could say they’ve done casual users a favor.

Post by what » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 2:11 AM UTC

linuxhansl wrote: post #88

I'm honestly surprised he held on for so long. Can't tell if it made a difference, though, as I haven't used Twitter for about decade. I'm having a somewhat hard time understanding the world's "infatuation" with X. I never miss any important news despite having been off it for so long.

Post by tbrownaw » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 2:12 AM UTC

gota wrote: post #6

bigyabai wrote: post #2

> X is, and will remain, the most important communication technology in history. A little cocky.

Twitter is indeed the greatest communication techonlogy if you do not count the telegraph, the telephone, the television, radio, almost every single aspect of the internet, etc. It beats shouting from your window in reach and carrier pigeons in needing less birdfeed, though.