The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better, by a lot. I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw away email address sites, so I have an account that I don't care about that I can use for twitter....but the experience just sucks. I don't know how any stands it, even if they don't mind needing an account.
replySeriously. The UX/UI on Twitter has always been a dumpster fire.
replyYeah, but most of these will fall. I used to use one or two of these to scrape my friends' posts because I stopped using Twitter and they'd inevitably all disappear in time. It's like chasing the latest TPB. In the end, I just logged in a headless browser and told an agent to fetch daily.
replyWhat is TPB?
replyI guess X never heard of the Streisand effect...
replyAny user scripts that automatically redirect to a working instance?
replyWe could stop thinking of them as walled gardens we're trying to get into and start thinking of them as quarantines for the Eternal September population.
reply> quarantines for the Eternal September population
replyHacker News actually has a way to do this quarantine, a version that only counts votes from accounts created before 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic. About a decade after Eternal September started, but not bad.
Wow that's very interesting but it only works for the front page (and also only changes the order not the numbers), not for each comment page.
replyMaybe we should have a setting "count only votes before date yyyy-mm-dd" but this would probably make the site too dynamic (?) and consume a lot of resources.
FWiW as an aside, it appears to count votes from December 2008 accounts (as just tested using this 2008-12-26 account).
replySo that's at least strictly before 2009.
Decade and a half, really. Eternal September was 1993 or 1994, right?
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replyAwesome. Let's all start using this on HN so we end up with a bunch of broken links in a few years
replyThey would become links with only a wrong domain, so I am not very worried about that personally.
reply> a bunch of broken links in a few years
replyWho cares, by that time the originals and their copies would be a lot less worthy of viewing.