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> for my very generic uses and purposes, has just gotten better.

Interesting. My "generic uses and purposes" was to occasionally scroll around through tweets somebody linked me to.

That's entirely impossible now since I don't have an account (and don't plan to create one).

Roughly speak, it has become infinitely worse for me.

It's a big holiday weekend in America, and having an outage seems like a minimal inconvenience, especially for those of us without an account.

There are entire communities of people who relied on the ability to simply read Twitter without an account, took the time to write code of their own, and now are reacting with much more maturity than HN seems to be. The petty personal attacks are simply astonishing.

"RIP Nitter" https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919

I really don't expect this to be permanent. For this very second though, I do get your point, there are quite a few services I only visit occasionally through links and even after making an account I was a lurker for the longest time on Twitter.

However talking in a way that takes the current critical temporary state as the default forever isn't very fair

It's not an unreasonable guess. Instagram did the same thing and never turned back.

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