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I'm not sure what you mean by twitter going "subscriber only". I pay them nothing per month and I just opened this link in an incognito window with no trouble...

You can only see one tweet, not a thread.

Yes exactly. And I find many tweets only make any sense either because they are a reply or the beginning of a thread or something. Or maybe the tweet is all there is, but you'd need to know that. With the new format you just get the orphaned tweet and don't know where it fits in. It's imo not really an appropriate way of sharing information anymore.

Yes. I agree.

Yes, it was announced on the (relatively brief) live stream.

Thanks, is there a better link then that would let someone not up to speed understand the announcement and significance?

Press release post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37654684

Not that I'm in favor of posts having links requiring login or paywalled, you can currently still workaround the twitter annoyance via s/twitter.com/nitter.net/:

https://nitter.net/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1706420064956661867