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This is the most impressive project in Nim I’ve seen yet. Rewriting any major front-end, complete with working authentication and handling idiosyncrasies of the private API is a herculean task. For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does, effectively. Kudos to the author for accomplishing this feat!

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The frontend uses Karax, which is my favorite frontend/SPA library in any language. It is an absolute joy to use, even if it's a bit rough around the edges.

https://github.com/karaxnim/karax

> For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does

Of course, because if Nitter goes down nobody bats an eye.

Nobody? If Nitter goes down Twitter might as well not even exist to me.

Yeah, and I immediately realized Nitter was back when I saw 100+ unread tweets in my RSS feed.

I just marked them all as read and moved on. I guess this Nitter outage may be the thing that finally pushes me to find the people I follow on other platforms.

this is exactly my experience for the last week. let's see whether I feel the need to update my instance with this patch. for now I'm just like "oh, another twitter link, let me completely ignore it."

I'll either ignore it or wait until somebody else accesses it and copies the text or takes a screenshot. If nobody does, it's because it's not important enough and I probably don't need to know about it.

Same.

I had my Privacy Redirect plugin redirect Twitter to 0.0.0.0 instead of nitter.lacontrevoie.fr after it got killed.

And the flagship instance of Nitter is unusable more often than not - the fact that it's working today is likely an artifact of people having given up given the week long total outage.

Maybe you don't use it very often? For months before the recent chaos it was very reliable. The fact that it's working today is only because I fixed it, Twitter didn't change anything.

It works great. Don't pay attention to the philosophers.

I quit twitter when I discovered it. Thank you.

To be clear, this is not intended to be a dig at the nitter team, I always assumed the software was more their focus than nitter.net

Timelines are usually blank, to the point that I have removed it from the rotation of instances in my browser redirector extension. I assumed this was a result of being rate limited by Twitter.

I will admit that since I did remove it from the rotation, I don't see it that often these days, mostly when others link to it and then I navigate to a timeline.

I’ve had timelines/tweets fail to load, but a refresh fixed it quickly. If this was a consistent problem did you consider opening an issue to see if they could improve the website?

Any chance you can re-enable rss?

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