Show HN: I built a minimal Twitter web app with few rules

[jlelse]

There's also Nitter, which doesn't require sign-in: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

[app4soft]

> doesn't require sign-in

This is a key why I would prefer to use Nitter.

[elorm]

This is pretty sweet. Only fault is I can’t seem to find lists.

[playpause]

Great work! FYI there’s a layout bug: if the timeline contains a very long unbreakable string such as a long URL, it busts out of the container and causes the page to extend horizontally well beyond the viewport.

[ramkarthikk]

Thank you. Not sure how I didn't hit that scenario the last two days when I built it (maybe long weekend and not many people tweeting?). That can be really annoying, especially in mobile. I will fix it soon.

[OctopusSandwich]

You can get similar results if you mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords

ActivityTweet , generic_activity_highlights , generic_activity_MomentsBreaking , RankedOrganicTweet , suggest_activity , suggest_activity_feed , suggest_activity_Highlights , suggest_activity_tweet , suggest_grouped_tweet_hashtag , suggest_pyle_tweet , suggest_ranked_organic_tweet , suggest_ranked_timeline_tweet , suggest_recap , suggest_recycled_tweet , suggest_recycled_tweet_inline , suggest_sc_tweet , suggest_timeline_tweet , suggest_who_to_follow , suggestactivitytweet , suggestpyletweet , suggestrecycledtweet_inline

[mrzool]

Just FYI, I would pay for a native iOS app that is polished enough and looks exactly like this.

[g_p]

I'd second this. Although from memory (and I didn't re-check this so I might be wrong) Twitter's API has quite strict user limits, in order to prevent third party clients from gaining significant marketshare (and thus spoiling their carefully planned curated feed to raise user engagement, with ads injected throughout).

I think that has proved an issue for "alternative" Twitter apps in the past, or at least did for quite a long time.

[ramkarthikk]

Thank you for the feedback. I wanted to test the waters with a quick web app before building a mobile app.

[throwaway9482]

Check out Tweetlogix. I bought that app, been using it for months now, I like it

[WillYouFinish]

Pretty neat! I switch between light and dark mode on all of my devices through the day depending on the lightning situation. I'd love to see the web app to switch automatically, too.

[ramkarthikk]

This would be interesting to add. I don't use any JavaScript, so I would have to get the user to set their time zone and the time after which they want to switch.

[karolisram]

Nice job, thanks for bringing it to the world! Was looking for something exactly like that a few weeks back.

[caseyw]

Too bad this isn’t the default setup for Twitter! I’d actually use the silly thing in that case

[TeMPOraL]

It looks pretty much the same as twittering.el - the Emacs package that lets you tweet from your editor. So if you enjoy that kind of aesthetics, the Church of Emacs extends its invitation ;).

[ramkarthikk]

The frustrating part is that even when you change your settings in Twitter to show most recent tweets, it goes back to top tweets in a day or two.

[bebna]

Perhaps try https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ ?

[bpodgursky]

The lack of replies seems like it would break tweet-threads entirely?

Honestly I like reading normal-person replies, but at a bare minimum, I would think you need to include self-replies to get most meaningful content through (at least on clickthrough).

[ramkarthikk]

I'm planning to add this as a setting in the next increment.

[keeptrying]

I do see retweets. Anyway if getting rid of them?

Don’t see anything in settings.

[ramkarthikk]

Retweets are always off and cannot be changed, so it should not show retweets in home timeline. It could be a bug I missed. I will take a look. Thank you for the heads up.

[janwillemb]

Didn't Twitter shut down apps like this in the past? I wonder how long this will last.

[mraza007]

Does it support markdown when tweeting

[ramkarthikk]

I did not want to request permission to post on behalf of users. With that out of the way, the most minimal way to reply and create new tweets (and even like/retweet) without write permissions is using Twitter's intent feature which opens a (surprisingly) minimal UI for those actions.

[sidshere]

Love it.