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Before jumping in and complaining about the Twitter format, jump to the bottom of the twitter thread where someone has almost certainly unrolled it. And remember Foone hates being linked on hacker news and didn't ask to be here.

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Please don't post off-topic comments that mirror the off-topic comments you're complaining about. It does about the same amount of damage to the thread.

(I've marked this subthread offtopic now.)

Why does the author's desire for community discussion factor in -- is that internet etiquette now?

No, of course not, that would be incredibly stupid. If you don't want to get published then don't publish.

I think that the important bit is that if you've got vitriol to spill about the twitter format that you keep it sealed. I'm guessing you don't care, which is right and good, but some people get upset (and presumably inform the authors) about twitter style posts.

I assumed it was just being used as additional evidence that you shouldn't tie any frustration with this post/its format to original original author.

Think of it like those "Please respect our neighbours" signs that bars post outside their establishment.

It looks like you need to be logged in now to do that, which is a relatively recent change.

https://nitter.net/Foone/status/1146135405793669121

How do I get to the bottom? It seems to have doom scrolling.

well, obviously, you use the scroll wheel .. on your . ... ...

Nitpick: You probably meant to write "endless scroll" or "infinite scroll". "Doom scrolling" is a verb for obsessively browsing bad news.

You can't have the behavior without the mechanism. To me "doom scrolling" is infinite scrolling plus algorithmically-sorted feed, way worse than infinitely-scrolling a chronological feed where people will stop and go do something else as soon as they see anything for a second time.

But that is NOT what it means to everybody else, so you will confuse people if you use it "your" way.

OK, I did as suggested. Now can I complain about the Twitter format?

No.

> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting.

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

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