Can we please stop posting twitter links? It's a horror show of a website, especially if you don't have an account.
I’m not logged in and the site loaded fine on mobile and then again on desktop. The video played immediately, I didn’t see any ads. Are you hoping to be able to comment without an account? That’s usually not how things work.
I’m guessing this is another case of Elon induced nerd grumpiness?
Malware websites are less awful than this.
Also, if I clicked into the tweet (xeet?) in the web view and hit “open in system browser”, I just got an X “something went wrong” page. Also if I opened the first video that failed to play, closed it, and clicked the second video, the first would attempt to load again instead until I reloaded the whole page and clicked the second…that still failed to play
I use HACK on iOS without any account and everything renders fine, the video plays with no issue for me.
Anything Elon is bad now though apparently. Seen quite a few comments hoping the Starship launch fails tomorrow, strange times we live in.
You used to be able to see context, not just a single tweet. If that doesn't make a difference to you in cases like this I don't know what to tell you.
In the specific case in Xitter, I perceive that as a good change. I like seeing what was linked to, without otherwise getting engaged there.
Not having any context is the part which makes links to xitter useless, most of the time you get a link to a reply but without context it’s difficult to impossible to understand what it’s about, and the link is functionally useless.
I would not. First, I would assume logged users do get context so they likely are not even aware of the issue, and second that is what link for, if you have a to quote everything you're linking to in full then the web is broken.
xitter is what's broken.
problem solved for good
The twitter comments.
I need it to load the content when I click, it's pretty simple.
Some damn sanity. Thank you.
Certainly the least scary horror show I’ve seen in a while.
Friendly fyi... the moderator allows Twitter links and previously explained the reasoning:
>We're not going to ban Twitter because, like it or not, it's the source of some of the most intellectually interesting material that gets posted here. -- from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430760
There's also a related moderator's post about allowing "paywall" articles : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
Solved!
It's almost as if lots of people still use Twitter / X to post content, yet a year later people still crying and moaning about it.
The hundreds of millions of users still posting their content on the platform don't care regardless.