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jurassicfoxy | 1 year ago

HN guidelines should ban "x.com" links entirely.

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karlzt|1 year ago

Not necessary, use LibRedirect[0] on Firefox so when you click on an X link it redirects to Nitter.

[0]https://libredirect.github.io/

anonfordays|1 year ago

Nitter is dead. After the API changes all the instances are broken and no longer work. Nitter the project itself states this: https://nitter.cz/ What a neat project it was, truly showed the capabilities and development easy of Nimlang.

pajeets|1 year ago

why?

randunel|1 year ago

In my experience, the vast majority of x.com links are unreadable, either an out of context message or some introductory phrase with no actual content.

I'd support such a ban, there are far better sources for that content, such as the link provided in this post.

HN doesn't enforce an "original link only" rule, and there are frequent URL changes to non-original content, mostly articles, which are more readable, or provide more information.

Simply put, x.com links seldom offer content for us to digest and comment on.

acdha|1 year ago

X puts most functionality behind a login check. Most importantly, you can’t view threads.