"If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
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Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
#2The creator of the project left this comment an hour ago:
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1155#issuecomment-19...
(HN removed the deep link to the specific comment from the title)
Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
#3Looks like this is the end
Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
#4Maybe this is a good moment to reconsider the acceptance of X links on HN. If users without accounts have no way to read the content, why redirect people there en-masse?
Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
#5Maybe this is a good moment to reconsider the acceptance of X links on HN. If users without accounts have no way to read the content, why redirect people there en-masse?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39154536
I use a redirection extension to prepend "https://farside.link/_/" to certain domains. https://twitter.com/nasa
…becomes:
The underscore adds an interstitial redirection page, so you can press Back to try another instance.
Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
#6Maybe this is a good moment to reconsider the acceptance of X links on HN. If users without accounts have no way to read the content, why redirect people there en-masse?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39154536 I use a redirection extension to prepend "https://farside.link/_/" to certain domains. For example: https://twitter.com/nasa …becomes: https://farside.link/_/twitter.com/nasa The underscore adds an interstitial redirection page, so you can press Back to try another instance. The above service redirects to Nitter which still appears to be working.
Nitter currently relies on the mass generation of guest accounts, a weird anonymous form of account that was only supported by old versions of the Twitter app. Creation of them was totally disabled today, so every nitter instance will be dead in under 30 days (when they expire). Scrapers apparently also relied on this, as every public nitter instance was being hammered by scrapers earlier. Instances will probably shut down quite soon unless someone finds another way to create tens of thousands of accounts in an automated fashion for free.
Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
#7On one hand, this is unfortunate since X always directs me to a login page, and Nitter was the only way I could view whatever gets posted nowadays. On the other hand, the cynical side of me is thankful that I have no more desirable means to see the contents of posts on X.
Edit: a similar thing happened with Reddit and Teddit(?). API restrictions effectively killed alternative frontends, so I simply don't look at Reddit posts anymore. I am aware of old.reddit.com, but in the case of Reddit I preferred the alternative frontends not only for no-JS compatibility, but also a (possibly false) sense of privacy
Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
#8This is just an instance shutting down, not all of the Nitter instances. Sort of a deceptive title.
Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
#9This is just an instance shutting down, not all of the Nitter instances. Sort of a deceptive title.
The important part is the linked GitHub comment from the primary maintainer (and owner) of the Nitter project. To save readers a click
Guest accounts have been removed, they weren't just led to believe that. With real accounts getting rate limited immediately and likely banned, I don't see any path forward for Nitter.
The way I interpret this comment is that all public Nitter instances are at risk of becoming inoperable (at their current scale).
Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
#10This is just an instance shutting down, not all of the Nitter instances. Sort of a deceptive title.
Except half of the instances are rate limited, so unless you know the username or tweet you are looking for, good luck searching for anything.