if you wanted more context for my post on it a while back. this is how the site where everyone puts their most up-to-date work, thoughts and news operates. it should not be your Main Site
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in reply to @mcc's post:
I'm honestly debating on pulling all my data and deleting everything idk that man has absolutely destroyed a vaguely useful resource for knowledge sharing. The equivalent of torching a library, and that is possibly one of the worst non violent crimes I can think of.
The fact that reply tweets show a little up up line to indicate they're a reply but then don't let you scroll up is, like... I legitimately can't tell what's a bug and what's on purpose these days. Maybe a desperate attempt to reduce API calls by having it simply just... not make more requests if you're logged out?
On the plus side this one's pretty great with no context at all https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1428589605960491012
Wait, "little up line"?
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…Alright so it turns out if you view a post which is a reply on Chrome on mobile, it shows the small gray line you mention to indicate replyness, but if you view in Chrome on desktop it does not. Compare the screenshot at the top of this post to
No way is any element of this intentional
What the hell. Bizarre. Meanwhile I saw the little reply up line in Safari on desktop, so it's not purely mobile vs desktop.
Wait, I just noticed. Does this mean they're also not rendering ads for logged-out users anymore? Because I thought they were doing that before
what's really funny, to me, is that the logged-out view doesn't even show ads
The decline of Twitter has been horrible, but also kind of fascinating?! It's almost like "What weird new issue will pop up today?"
andi i can't believe you're a self-hating wolf poacher. https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1503939678298419203
Hey Andi, here's a pretty fun one without context: https://twitter.com/hausofdecline/status/1690423462332887041
in reply to @mcc's post:
just checked on christine's page and the profile behaviour seems to be tweets sorted by fav count descending. "top" tweets lol
using nitter you get the weird random post order thing or nothing at all /unless/ you go to the replies tab which appears to just work normally?
This is very funny because the regular interface seemingly can't show the replies tab at all.
This is also affecting the embedded twitter widgets. The company I work for has an embedded frame with their marketing twitter and it has abruptly switched to showing "new" product lauches from 2017.
in reply to @mcc's post:
very solid analysis as always. thank you for it.
at this point we seem to be through with most of our feelings about Twitter, except for a generalized frustration that it turned out this way. so. that's nice?
Oh, I forgot to mention. Go to any profile while logged out, say https://twitter.com/CNN , and click "Replies". You just straight up get an error message. When I saw this in the previous post I assumed it was because the logged-out profiles aren't supposed to be visible at all and no one had tested, but it's kinda baffling they didn't notice and fix it when they made (some) profiles public again.
It's also somehow very arbitrary too. Your account opens on logged out, but I also have checked other accounts of users that have like 80-100K followers – and they're blocked under the log in prompt. Hard to figure out what's the algorithm here.
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