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Re: Tweak New Twitter

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Post by abdullahkhalids »

insin wrote: post #19

Author here, this the website where you go to get customer support from Google, right? /s Was everyone who reviews extensions at Google part of the cohort who were suddenly given a cardboard box and shown the door recently? The extension has been blowing up in Japan over the weekend (user numbers more than doubled from 29,000 to 68,000 over the last few days) so I internationalized it to add a Japanese locale (and in…

Here are some crazy features I really want. I doubt you can implement, but a man can dream.

1. For some accounts, I don't see what they tweet, but want to continue seeing their retweets.

2. For some accounts, I only want to see tweets that are replies to my other followers. Otherwise, I don't want to see their tweets on my timeline.

3. Some "famous" people will retweet every praise they get from someone. You know "I totally loved @famousperson's new book". I would love to just block any retweets by them that has their own username in it. And keep everything else.

4. Chronological timeline, but only show maximum of N tweets from a particular account.

5. Craziest feature. Flip the timeline around, so scrolling downwards shows me newer tweets. And at the start of the session, move me to the last tweet I viewed.

Effective use of twitter is about removing as much of the noise as possible from your timeline, so as to increase the signal-to-noise ratio.

Re: Tweak New Twitter

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Post by seabea »

mjmsmith wrote: post #9
crimsoneer wrote: post #3

Instead of an extension to un-twitterfy twitter, I want one to tweetify Mastodon...

Take a look at Elk [1], it's the closest thing I've seen to a Twitter UI. [1] https://elk.zone/

Elk is amazing. Even running it as my primary client on mobile. Really shows how good PWAs can be.

One of my favorite features is the built-in code highlighting.

Re: Tweak New Twitter

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

WaffleIronMaker wrote: post #30
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Whenever I go back, I started to wonder why I spent so much time there What about same question posed to yourself (and myself), but for this website (Hacker News) instead of Twitter? :)

Personally, I find the average quality of discussion on Hacker News to be much higher than the average quality of discussion on Twitter. There are fewer incentives for flame wars, and fewer bots trying to get me to buy random T-shirts.

I don't disagree, I just wonder if you (and myself) should spend as much time as we do on this site :)

Re: Tweak New Twitter

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Post by dom96 »

insin wrote: post #19

Author here, this the website where you go to get customer support from Google, right? /s Was everyone who reviews extensions at Google part of the cohort who were suddenly given a cardboard box and shown the door recently? The extension has been blowing up in Japan over the weekend (user numbers more than doubled from 29,000 to 68,000 over the last few days) so I internationalized it to add a Japanese locale (and in…

Another annoyance of the Chrome Web Store: you cannot publish a new version if another version is still pending publication. Ran into that once which meant an even greater time stuck waiting for the latest version to be published...

Re: Tweak New Twitter

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Post by layer8 »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #28
mmastrac wrote: post #10

The Elon acquisition forcing me to finally break my Twitter habit was awesome. Whenever I go back, I started to wonder why I spent so much time there. Mastodon has been positive in other ways - I'm posting less there than I did on Twitter, and the people there are generally less toxic overall (though I've been carefully curating who I follow this time around). I think we'll continue to see social media fracture and f…

> Whenever I go back, I started to wonder why I spent so much time there What about same question posed to yourself (and myself), but for this website (Hacker News) instead of Twitter? :)

Let’s hope for some onerous SPA overhaul of HN somewhere down the line. ;)

Re: Tweak New Twitter

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Post by insin »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #31
insin wrote: post #19

Author here, this the website where you go to get customer support from Google, right? /s Was everyone who reviews extensions at Google part of the cohort who were suddenly given a cardboard box and shown the door recently? The extension has been blowing up in Japan over the weekend (user numbers more than doubled from 29,000 to 68,000 over the last few days) so I internationalized it to add a Japanese locale (and in…

Here are some crazy features I really want. I doubt you can implement, but a man can dream. 1. For some accounts, I don't see what they tweet, but want to continue seeing their retweets. 2. For some accounts, I only want to see tweets that are replies to my other followers. Otherwise, I don't want to see their tweets on my timeline. 3. Some "famous" people will retweet every praise they get from someone. You know "I…

Those are all very doable except for 5, but they're so (relatively) niche I think they'd belong together in a separate extension dedicated to selectively trimming down your timeline.

Personally, after I moved Retweets to their own tab, I found I just never missed them or looked at them again, and if I put them back in it just seems like random noise now.

> And at the start of the session, move me to the last tweet I viewed

This one I would like to do, but... Twitter has at least some built-in ability to do this (if you scroll your timeline a few screens worth, navigate away from the home timeline then eventually navigate back, it can restore your previous position), but I haven't found a way to make use of it for this feature - I _suspect_ they're caching the current state of whatever way they do their windowing of timeline tweets, then restoring that later, which means it's probably not possible to leverage it to jump to a particular tweet from a cold start.

Automatically scrolling through tweets until you hit a particular last-seen one isn't great alternative either, as it's pretty slow and the timeline currently seems to end after about a day and a half.

Re: Tweak New Twitter

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Post by plushpuffin »

pornel wrote: post #20
the_gipsy wrote: post #16

I want to block accounts of the promoted tweets I get. If enough people did that...

Enough people did that once, and then Twitter changed blocking to ignore that. I've used a blocklist of top-500 advertisers that was making rounds, and it stopped working after a while. You can't win with a platform on the platform's turf.

Blocking accounts still prevents them from showing you promoted tweets. I think the only thing that stopped working was the ability to share and subscribe to block lists.

Re: Tweak New Twitter

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Post by spoils19 »

WaffleIronMaker wrote: post #30
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Whenever I go back, I started to wonder why I spent so much time there What about same question posed to yourself (and myself), but for this website (Hacker News) instead of Twitter? :)

Personally, I find the average quality of discussion on Hacker News to be much higher than the average quality of discussion on Twitter. There are fewer incentives for flame wars, and fewer bots trying to get me to buy random T-shirts.

A lot of that can definitely be chalked up to the excellent moderation by dang! It's the last real place on the internet for me, a line saloon in the wild west if you will.

Re: Tweak New Twitter

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Post by abdullahkhalids »

insin wrote: post #36
abdullahkhalids wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here are some crazy features I really want. I doubt you can implement, but a man can dream. 1. For some accounts, I don't see what they tweet, but want to continue seeing their retweets. 2. For some accounts, I only want to see tweets that are replies to my other followers. Otherwise, I don't want to see their tweets on my timeline. 3. Some "famous" people will retweet every praise they get from someone. You know "I…

Those are all very doable except for 5, but they're so (relatively) niche I think they'd belong together in a separate extension dedicated to selectively trimming down your timeline. Personally, after I moved Retweets to their own tab, I found I just never missed them or looked at them again, and if I put them back in it just seems like random noise now. > And at the start of the session, move me to the last tweet I…

Thanks for the detailed answer.

> Personally, after I moved Retweets to their own tab, I found I just never missed them or looked at them again, and if I put them back in it just seems like random noise now.

Depends on who you follow. I follow a limited set of intellectual minded people who themselves follow a lot of people and retweet the good stuff. So, I would quite like to continue reading them.

Re: Tweak New Twitter

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Post by the_gipsy »

pornel wrote: post #20
the_gipsy wrote: post #16

I want to block accounts of the promoted tweets I get. If enough people did that...

Enough people did that once, and then Twitter changed blocking to ignore that. I've used a blocklist of top-500 advertisers that was making rounds, and it stopped working after a while. You can't win with a platform on the platform's turf.

You are right, it would just get stomped down. Either by detecting that the block was automated, or because it stems from a promoted tweet.

The only winning move is not to play the game. Or play a game that you can own.

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