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Re:The front end community wants to wash its hands of the de... by rubyfan on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:06AM (#33287140)
I couldn’t even get through it. I sort of hate Twitter threads. Lost are the days of making your point in 140 characters or less.
Re:The front end community wants to wash its hands of the de... by smt88 on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:15AM (#33287203)
I've never seen an interesting point that could be made in 140 characters or less. That limit works for jokes, headlines, and almost nothing else.

Single-tweet "wisdom" always turns out to be something so broad/unqualified that it's uninteresting or untrue. VC Twitter is basically a deluge of that kind of faux-profound nonsense.

Re:The front end community wants to wash its hands of the de... by drewcoo on Friday October 21, 2022 @12:50PM (#33290194)
> Single-tweet "wisdom" always turns out to be something so broad/unqualified that it's uninteresting or untrue.

True, but Twitter threads are the Burma Shave signs of the tech-gentsia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-burmashave/2/

Re:The front end community wants to wash its hands of the de... by expanseoftrees on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:11AM (#33287169)
Haha I created an account just to agree. There’s no content to this twitter thread. I think he’s anti mainstream? That’s his signal?
Re:The front end community wants to wash its hands of the de... by scrapcode on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:43AM (#33287399)
At first I found it surprising to start finding all of these Twitter threads making it to the front of HN and thought "well, it must be a really compelling message..." Now I just ignore them altogether. It is a very distracting medium for the longer posts, and that distraction shows through from the writers side as well.
Re:The front end community wants to wash its hands of the de... by alcover on Friday October 21, 2022 @10:43AM (#33288492)
> hate Twitter threads

Me too. They are absurd, hard to read and a waste of resource (load time, requests, steaming pile of JS).

They sould be penalized/barred.