There’s also xcancel.com, which has the benefit that you only have to insert “cancel” into the existing x.com URL.
What makes this work where Nitter doesn’t (from what I heard)?
Less users because it's not well-known. You can't do this at scale.
Tangent but is Nitter still around? I thought they had shut down the project because Xitter was locking them out. I used to rewrite search results to point to nitter and it was rather nice.
Edit: looks like some instances are still alive and I assume coasting under the radar, but the original nitter project is still dead.
Nitter.net is defunct, but the software is open source and alternative instances exist.
Ahh, yes I used to self host it but turned it off when they stopped development. When I saw the parent comment I was briefly hoping someone had picked it back up or forked it.
Why would you stop hosting just because development stopped? Did it stop working?
When I read the announcement I misunderstood it to mean that it was going to stop working in general, and that was right around the time I was migrating my selfhosted stuff to a new server and doing some cleanup. So I didn't bother migrating it over.
I think twitter rate-limits everyone. For example, I don't think that the nitter instance up there will survive the requests of HN-ers.
As long as they're just reading the cached thread, it should be fine.
I thought Nitter died. Is there any revival project?
Isn't that what is linked?
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