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Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by nimvlaj30 »

alexitosrv wrote: post #501
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For reddit, IMO the simplest things you can do to improve the experience is to force the old reddit design (old.reddit.com) when on desktop, and use any app except the official app when on mobile.

Unfortunately, I think they are going to decommission that version eventually. Something that irritated me, for instance, was how they decided to remove the account activity panel, making revisiting recent links waaay harder. That coupled with the fact that they also remove a link from the front page too quickly is also making me to use the site less. So much for the dark patterns, heh.

I don't care, because as soon as they do that I'll be quitting.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by dredmorbius »

SECProto wrote: post #505
dredmorbius wrote: post #463

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The problem with old.reddit.com (as opposed to teddit) is that numerous links on Reddit will redirect you to the New experience. Absent DNS hacks, you'll find yourself consistently frustrated by this. With Teddit, AFAIU the rewrites will keep you on Teddit rather than bouncing from old (or i) to www.reddit.com. Mind, Reddit shoud GDIAF. The growth hacking crap has also broken my own usage habit. I'll check in periodi…

> The problem with old.reddit.com (as opposed to teddit) is that numerous links on Reddit will redirect you to the New experience. Absent DNS hacks, you'll find yourself consistently frustrated by this. I have found that keeping the "Use new Reddit as my default experience" box unchecked on reddit.com/prefs results in almost never being redirected to the "new" site. The only exception is when someone uploaded a galle…

Are you using "old.reddit.com" to visit, or "www.reddit.com" and relying on JS for the old-site experience?

I'm doing the latter (in large part so that I post old.reddit.com links), and I can assure you It Does Not Work As Expected Or Desired.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by tinktank »

bityard wrote: post #249
eurasiantiger wrote: post #218

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Remind me again, why did we leave IRC?

I don't understand the question. IRC is a real-time chat protocol and twitter is a proprietary micro-blogging website. I don't see how the two are related, other than they are both something to do with the Internet.

Don't be disingenuous.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by Aerroon »

staticassertion wrote: post #408
BTCOG wrote: post #122

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I just want to be able to occasionally read a few tweets with no required login or account. Just the same with Instagram and similar, I just won't use it and I'll forget about it. I guess Twitter is next. No, I've never had a Twitter account. I don't have a Facebook account.

I don't think Twitter cares that you won't use it. They've almost certainly weighed the cost of a tiny portion of people caring vs a massive reduction in bots.

How do you make that kind of calculus though? Presumably Twitter will want to stay around for a very long time. If people like BTCOG take away a negative experience from it then doesn't it seed a future negative opinion of Twitter?

10 years ago when a government banned Twitter it was almost universally seen as bad. That's probably not the case anymore. Will it be worse in the future?

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by brailsafe »

dleslie wrote: post #544

I recently deleted my Twitter and Reddit accounts. Both services seem to rely on an outrage->comment->outrage cycle to produce engagement, and I decided I didn't need to encourage more outrage in my life. It's been good. I recommend it.

Additionally, at least Twitter has a pretty nice offline webapp that gets downloaded when you archive your account.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by tdeck »

If this goes further it's going to be frustrating to get information about public services. My local fire department has a Twitter feed where they tell the public about areas to avoid. Both local public transit systems use Twitter and it's often the best way to know about real time delays and issues (often in replies rather than main-feed tweets). It's already bad enough when these things are on Facebook, but I always appreciated when they're on Twitter and visible to everyone. It seems like now that might be changing.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by trypietry »

usefulcat wrote: post #164
trypietry wrote: post #59

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To draw back in those seeking to cut down their social media usage, in part

I don't see how that makes sense. If you're looking to reduce your social media usage, this change will make that easier..

One way of cutting down usage is to reduce the amount of data you volunteer. Logging out is an easy way to reduce usage. This change compels light users to stay logged in and participating.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by batman-farts »

jjulius wrote: post #233
batman-farts wrote: post #220

The beginning of the end. Somewhat perverse that it seems like the fall of Kabul was the motivation for this change.

First I've heard of that being mentioned as the catalyst, and - forgive my ignorance - I can't imagine why the fall of Kabul would prompt this decision. Care to elaborate as to why, and/or provide a source? Aside: lol @ your SN

Perhaps just a coincidence (though I doubt it), but the full-screen login pop-ups on mobile became constant that weekend. Seemed like most of the videos coming out of Kabul airport that weekend were sourced off Twitter.
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