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#33: using Twitter for long-form content

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1421014957110579203.html

>Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.

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

Regardless, all you need to do is scroll down. It's clearer than HN's trees.

It's not quite as clear that the rule applies when the subject under discussion is UI/UX right? Because it is interesting when some one who is telling you about their hot line on truth makes a mistake.

It's not their site, it's not the topic that relates to the title, and it's a discussion that this website has had hundreds of times before, equally as fruitlessly.

Sure, not their site, but their choice to publish there regardless? I think it is a valid line of criticism and distinct from the rule you quote, which I understand to be more about stopping off-topic nit-picking.

To me, it seems perfectly relevant to the OP, since the whole point of the thread is to give consideration to the UX. If the thread were about anything else, I'd agree with you.

This used to upset me as well, but I now think of it as reflecting the reality of the modern Internet. The post is on Twitter because the intention is for you to like and follow.

Had you seen it on a blog post, would you have typed in your email address into the inevitable popup modal? Gaining some Twitter followers and a bunch of retweets is better than gaining 0 emails from a hard-to-discover blog post.

It demonstrates a business opportunity they're not taking advantage of. They don't have to cater to SMS any more. Sell long form blogging as a premium feature.

Perhaps they have attempted to take advantage in the past and it turned out to be a dead end? Information is cheap and the cost to reproduce it is zero. This UI/UX stuff isn't info people are going to pay for, because it's available elsewhere for free.

Reading is free. Sell longer tweets to those who want more attention.

I got used to twitter threads, it's like when you get one portion of information per tweet

It probably helps that writing copy on the Internet has mostly devolved into Twitter style single-sentence paragraphs.

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