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Url changed from https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1241620966762938370.html, which points to this.

What’s the ruling on using threadreaderapp? Would a good submission post the original twitter source and link threadreaderapp in a comment?

"Ruling" is too strong a word but that's probably the best way. HN's guidelines call for original sources: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

If there were a community consensus that threadreaderapp.com links are better than the equivalent twitter.com links, we could maybe override that, but there's no such consensus.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It might be a cool cultural thing for someone to post a threadreaderapp link if available the way someone always posts an archive link.

threadreaderapp is fast and almost always works unlike Twitter links that simply show "try again" because I block referer headers from being sent to their servers.

> Our CSRF protection mechanism for POST requests checks that the origin and referer headers of the request are sourced from Twitter. Since we knew this to be effective for POSTs, we considered how we could implement this for GET requests.

> This proved effective in addressing the vulnerability, but it prevented this initial load of the website. You might load Twitter from a Google search result or by typing the url into the browser. To address this case, we created a blank page on twitter.com which did nothing but reload itself. Upon reload, the referer would be set to twitter.com, and so it would load correctly.

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2...

Wow that's actually horrid.

Threadreader is unambiguously superior to Twitter.

Many users say the opposite.

My main concern is that Twitter accessory services tend to die due to business model or changes in Twitter's API. Linking to one instead of the tweet increases the chance of a dead link in the future. Even if it's better now, it stands a good chance of being worse in the long run.

I have to agree that threadreader is obviously better now: it actually shows you the thread. Twitter at some point in the past few months switched to showing unrelated tweets by the same user instead of the whole thread, requiring you to spot the link to expand it.

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