[Cub3]

It seems a lot of reddit communities are starting to block xitter as it's painful to use now without an account. Should HN do the same?

[easterncalculus]

The main reason all the subs made this change today is because of the elon nazi salute, not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents.

[dmix]

> not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents.

Yep, Twitter has had aggressive authentication gating for almost 2yrs now and HN frequently has Twitter links

[ImJamal]

Pretty much every politician has done the same "nazi" salute. If that is actually the reason that is ridiculous.

[kernal]

> The main reason all the subs made this change today is because of the elon nazi salute

You need to be a radical far leftist to even believe that. But then this is Reddit.

[loeg]

Nah. I just wanted to see a source I trusted to be legitimate before sharing a sensational story.

[kernal]

What far left sources do you consider “trusted”?

[frinxor]

if its on front page of HN already w/ hundreds of votes, i think its fair to assume its legitimate regardless of the source.

[psygn89]

No. Let us decide how we want to handle it. Most of us could handle it ourselves through scripts and extensions if it really bothered us anyway.

[hbbio]

Of course not, the tweet here is _the_ original source for that news

[weberer]

>it's painful to use now without an account.

Now??? Its been just as painful to use without an account for around 10 years now.

[tombert]

No, it's worse now.

Back in 2017, I could still read public profiles, their tweets, and look at the replies, all without logging in.

Now I can't even look at an account page without logging in.