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Comment by glhaynes | Hacker News Reader

A lot of people seem to love these twitter thread unroller sites, but it's not clear to me what problem they solve (on modern Twitter) and I almost always find the original Twitter thread to be more readable/flexible. For example, in this one, I found it a bit confusing whether a particular paragraph went with the clip above or below it. Anyway, to each their own! Original thread here… @Foone is the best: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066284025600339968

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On my machine, the linked 'threader' has every video as a busted icon, which defeats the entire topic. Twitter handles them correctly. Thank you.

One thing I found interesting that the author didn't seem to notice is that the text of the Star Wars opening crawl in the behind-the-scenes photo[1] is radically different from the version that saw release.

The crawl that we've all seen is only 4 sentences long: two in the first paragraph, then two 'paragraphs' of one multi-clause sentence each.

The crawl pictured in the tweet[1] is a much wordier mess, and may well be the original crawl Lucas showed to friends and executives before Brian de Palma edited the text down for him. It also features something similar to Dan Perri's semi-rejected logotype at the top (cut off unless you click in or view the image directly), the angled 'Star Wars' block logo most prominently seen on the original posters[2] for the film.

[1]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dsw_RjNUcAAgCgE.jpg

[2]: https://www.google.com/search?q=star+wars+77+poster&tbm=isch

same here

I shudder to think how bad ANH would have been if Lucas had his way. We had a 1st taste in ROTJ and full-Lucas vision in the prequels.

Hey totof, creator of Threader here. Could you email me (vincent[at]threader.app) the configuration of your device, I would like to reproduce the issue. Thanks

Just another 2 cents: I prefer the threader version as the main twitter site for me frequently fails to load, bothers me to sign in with full page interstitials, download the app bars, and has many touch areas I can hit to accidentally load random other pages. If anyone replies in the middle of the thread too I have trouble following it.

Thank you for posting the original thread, it's a much better experience, especially on mobile

TBH I did not know which link to submit. On another submission, someone posted a link to a Twitter thread which was replaced by a link to a "threader" app by the moderators. Here it's the opposite.

I personally also have a preference for the link to the original Twitter post. So thanks to the mods for the correction!

But all the credit goes to the person who posted the awesome thread on Twitter (@Foone). I only copied the link on HN.

What a shame having more than one link is impossible. /snark

Ok, since commenters seem to be agreeing that this is better, we've changed to it from https://threader.app/thread/1066284025600339968.

Hi Grady, our users use the threader format because most of them use our iOS Twitter client and they found the article format easier to read. Indeed some people still prefer the Twitter format. In this particular case (with the clip position) we will improve the layout.

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