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Comment by lawrenci | Hacker News Reader

I'm so tired of hearing business people talk about how Elon laid off 80% of engineers at Twitter and "it still works!"

It doesn't work well. X is a buggy mess, and a way worse user experience than Twitter was prior to Elon. For the past several weeks, threads have failed to load whenever I click into a Tweet.

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Hiding replies from people not logged in was intentional.

X has replies? I thought they shut that off.

I am logged in, but for the past few weeks, replies won't load and I get an error message on my iPhone. The whole website is much slower too. I'm sure someone will tell me to use the app, but I don't have any intention to do so.

Just delete your account, man.

Until someone decides it's enough and makes a board elsewhere paired with a browser extension that takes the X URL and creates a thread where people can comment disregarding completely the one at X. The same can be made for Youtube for example; want dubbing in a different language, or play a different music that would trigger a copyright claim? All it needs is to sync the video with an external audio source, possibly shared through p2p; also doable by a browser extension.

Problem is that things like "manifest V3" may make this technically impossible (or you'll get a "manifest V4" to address this), and even then, software distribution is now controlled by a handful of gatekeepers who will quickly delete such extensions.

This is designed to encourage you to login

>threads have failed to load whenever I click into a Tweet

To be fair to Musk, it's like that for years.

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