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Comment by michaelanckaert | Hacker News Reader

These are great write ups! Just a shame they are in the format of a twitter “conversation”. The readability really sucks and don’t let me get started on the UX :/

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I've noticed multiple people pinging twitter.com/threadreaderapp at the ends of these threads. It rolls up the tweets into a more traditional single-page, blog format.

Thx for the tip!

Sure that helps... Or they could've just written it in a sane format to begin with, and link to that on their twitter.

True, but what if that wouldn't have reached as many people and we wouldn't be having this conversation?

This conversation is about the medium, not the message, so we'd probably have been OK without this one. I agree that a Twitter thread is a pretty inefficient and painful way of reading a conversation.

I mean the entire conversation, not just this particular subthread.

Basically, what if doing something different would have impacted the reach of the discussion to the point where none of us would have heard about it. Is that better?

Huh? Loads of links on HN are not to twitter. Most of them in fact. I don't see how twitter is a prerequisite for us having the opportunity to discuss something here.

The reason people post stuff to twitter is because they have an addiction to the gamification of social media like/share statistics.

Did you sincerely think that the crux of my message was that Twitter links are a prerequisite for having the opportunity to discuss something here?

Well you did suggest that this discussion would go unhad, where it not for twitter, so yes?

Thanks. In that case I don't think it's worth carrying on more discussion, given that you are interpreting something entirely different from what I meant.

Here's a direct link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1165493206441779200.html

I couldn't read it on mobile because Twitter wants to force me to install an app.

Disable JavaScript and Twitter magically becomes...almost useable. You can only view one image at a time. Other than that, proper conversations are readable. As someone who visits Twitter approximately every other month, it works for me.

Weird, I only browse Twitter in my mobile browser and I never had any issues. Which browser are you using?

Maybe install the app then?

How does anyone consider this to be a sensible format to publish content in?

I liked the Twitter presentation.

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