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Comment by sevenproxies | Hacker News Reader

A guide for reading this Twitter page.

1. Start at the bottom of the posts by the author (just above the "More Tweets" section).

2. Find the post that mentions q_rsqrt.

3. work you're way up the page, and though the "Show this thread" buttons to try and gleam some semi-chorological sense of context

Anyone got a better method?

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The way twitter refuses to show you the actual tweet someone linked to in the middle of a thread is super-annoying. One thing that can help a little bit (on the desktop version at least) is to load the URL without the referer (i.e., highlight the URL bar and hit enter). It seems to use the presence of a referer as signal to hide the tweet you want to see (???).

But ThreadReaderApp is also a good alternative to just bypass the bad UI entirely.

Unfortunately I don't really have time for dedicated blogging any more, so I just post small bits to twitter as I go. Which is why putting together the full story required a bunch of QTs of threads from the past week...

Any hope of putting up a gist on pastebin?

A gist of what? The slur list? That's already on my website:

https://moyix.net/~moyix/copilot_slurs_rot13.txt

I assume they mean a more readable version of the content from the Twitter thread, rather than just the list. I could be wrong though.

Twitter's readability is really hit and miss, depending on client and logged in or not etc.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1433254293352730628.html

The incessant quote-tweeting in a thread does make it unnecessarily complicated though.

Just read it on a Nitter instance. For example, https://nitter.net/moyix/status/1433261377125326851. (Hacker News: please pick another instance to avoid DOSing Nitter.)

Hint: Replace the instance name with "twiiit.com" and it automatically redirects to a random, online instance.

https://twiiit.com/

My approach, although incompatible, is to simply not use twitter for things it is really bad at. I'm happy with missing out.

Just click on the first post, and ignore the “More Tweets” section—it'll show the entire thread in order.

Not sure if I'm making any contribution but here's togetter aggregation[1]. Wondered why they don't have English counterpart and found it[2] had to shut down few years ago. I guess Twitter didn't like it at all.

1: https://togetter.com/li/1769757

2: https://chirpstory.com/

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