XCancel service is suspended until further notice • Hacker News Board

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

#91

Post by dpmartinez » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 12:16 PM UTC

Are there other instances available? X can't ban them all.

I wish legal issues wouldn’t exist for this project and X would stop attacking projects that provide information for free.

Privacy is important more than ever as many of us don't want to login into X.

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

#92

Post by esarbe » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 12:18 PM UTC

https://status.d420.de/

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

#93

Post by goda90 » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 12:18 PM UTC

> You can find the content you were looking for on the original website

*if you log in to an account

A big reason many people use Nitter instances is that X has become very locked down for unauthenticated users.

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

#94

Post by yoz-y » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 12:19 PM UTC

Web version of Twitter has become unusable now. So much so that I wonder why they still keep it.

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

#95

Post by jmclnx » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 12:20 PM UTC

This to me is a big issue. You have politicians, government entities and other public institutions posting to twitter, but to access we need to log in.

There needs to be a free, non-ad, non-login environment people can use to access this information posted by public entities.

This comment also applies to facebook too, which I think is even worse than twitter.

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

#96

Post by pamcake » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 12:20 PM UTC

Of more concern, the Nitter github repository was permanently archived a couple of days ago.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

#97

Post by accountrequired » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC

i just want to unmute the video and full screen it without logging in. i click twitter link and it is muted.

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

#98

Post by DaedalusII » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 12:23 PM UTC

jmclnx wrote: post #95

This to me is a big issue. You have politicians, government entities and other public institutions posting to twitter, but to access we need to log in. There needs to be a free, non-ad, non-login environment people can use to access this information posted by public entities. This comment also applies to facebook too, which I think is even worse than twitter.

but how to do that without protecting the content from enemy LLM companies scraping?

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

#99

Post by rob74 » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 12:23 PM UTC

Maybe instead of trying to get rid of services that provide a more convenient access to X to non-logged-in users, they should realize that there is a real market behind these services - users that will likely never sign up to X, but who want to read/watch some content without the incessant nagging and limitations that X subjects non-logged-in users to?

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

#100

Post by rob74 » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 12:24 PM UTC

yoz-y wrote: post #94

Web version of Twitter has become unusable now. So much so that I wonder why they still keep it.

So they can try to nag you into signing up and installing the app? Which doesn't work in 99.9% of cases, but try telling that to your boss if his name is Elon Musk...