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382 points brundolf | 2 comments | 02 Jan 21 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.017s | source
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hadrien01 ◴[02 Jan 21 20:11 UTC] No.25616026[source]▶
For those that can't stand Twitter's UI: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1345146328058269696.html
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nikolay ◴[02 Jan 21 21:01 UTC] No.25616482[source]▶
It's very painful to follow a conversation on Twitter. I'm not sure why they think the way they've done things makes sense.
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lmilcin ◴[02 Jan 21 21:09 UTC] No.25616558[source]▶
It was never supposed to support conversation in the first place.

People were supposed to shoot short, simple, single messages and other people maybe react to this with their own short, single messages.

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iambateman ◴[02 Jan 21 21:38 UTC] No.25616780[source]▶
We are way way past that point.

It’s time for Twitter to evolve in so many ways.

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nikolay ◴[02 Jan 21 21:39 UTC] No.25616788[source]▶
I think they can't as their system is built with many of these limitations and preconceptions and it's hard for it to evolve easily.
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yiyus ◴[02 Jan 21 22:37 UTC] No.25617268[source]▶
It may be difficult to evolve, but it should be possible.
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nikolay ◴[03 Jan 21 01:12 UTC] No.25618389[source]▶
If there's will, there's a way. Remember how long they've tried to convince themselves that 140 characters is more than enough. Nowadays, even phones display conversations better and combine or split text messages hiding the 160 characters limit from the end user and allow longer than 280 characters texts. Twitter has some nice ideas, but it's mostly a huge missed opportunity.
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1. ganafagol ◴[03 Jan 21 07:39 UTC] No.25620277[source]▶
The character limit was central to making Twitter what it is. Without that limit you'd just have ended up with walls of text and nobody would have been interested. This is a great example of limitations forcing creativity.

The character limit is the defining feature of Twitter.

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2. nikolay ◴[04 Jan 21 02:14 UTC] No.25627282[source]▶
Maybe for you. I'm not saying having no limit, but a number of words limit is better than a number of characters. They started to revert their _defining feature_ but not counting characters in URLs, etc.