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Comment by SquareWheel | Hacker News Reader

I've never heard anybody say they like these kinds of threads before. Maybe it's better on mobile, but Twitter makes it very difficult to browse on desktop.

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Can we just have a sticky on every foone post on HN to tell people to stop complaining about it being a Twitter thread? Maybe then Foone himself [wouldn't hate being featured on Hacker News so much][0]. Not to mention he has a perfectly good reason to use Twitter threads (which he explains over and over): he has ADHD and it's a way to cope with it.

[0]: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1372945388664066061?s=20

And unrolled:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1372945388664066061.html

*themself

*they have

Thank you from another they/them!

my bad, sorry about that. I think it's too late to edit? The button's no longer there.

I don't really see how typing into Twitter's UI is any different than typing into a Notepad file. Just type the thought and hit <enter>. Any editing beyond that might be appreciated but isn't required.

I love his stream of consciousness threads, but I always "unroll" them:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1387999563382857729.html

I mainly don't want the rest of Twitter added into my experience or life, so this helps immensely.

How do they show up for you?

For me (on desktop) it looks like a list of tweets, one after another, sometimes with a "Load more of this thread" link in the middle.

For me they show up like that as well. But I still find that the format gives a weird stuttering to the conversation and adds so much "chrome" noise around the actual content.

In general I don't click twitter links on HN because I find the format painful for anything but short content. However I do make an exception for Foone as they have a lot of interesting stuff.

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