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Re:Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad by lawrenci on Thursday June 13, 2024 @12:57PM (#40671979)
I'm so tired of hearing business people talk about how Elon laid off 80% of engineers at Twitter and "it still works!"

It doesn't work well. X is a buggy mess, and a way worse user experience than Twitter was prior to Elon. For the past several weeks, threads have failed to load whenever I click into a Tweet.

Re:Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad by pseudalopex on Thursday June 13, 2024 @01:00PM (#40672021)
Hiding replies from people not logged in was intentional.
Re:Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad by squarefoot on Thursday June 13, 2024 @02:56PM (#40673229)
Until someone decides it's enough and makes a board elsewhere paired with a browser extension that takes the X URL and creates a thread where people can comment disregarding completely the one at X. The same can be made for Youtube for example; want dubbing in a different language, or play a different music that would trigger a copyright claim? All it needs is to sync the video with an external audio source, possibly shared through p2p; also doable by a browser extension.
Re:Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad by noprocrasted on Thursday June 13, 2024 @05:19PM (#40674905)
Problem is that things like "manifest V3" may make this technically impossible (or you'll get a "manifest V4" to address this), and even then, software distribution is now controlled by a handful of gatekeepers who will quickly delete such extensions.
Re:Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad by lawrenci on Thursday June 13, 2024 @01:45PM (#40672473)
I am logged in, but for the past few weeks, replies won't load and I get an error message on my iPhone. The whole website is much slower too. I'm sure someone will tell me to use the app, but I don't have any intention to do so.
Re:Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad by coldpie on Thursday June 13, 2024 @01:58PM (#40672624)
Just delete your account, man.
Re:Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad by Filligree on Thursday June 13, 2024 @01:13PM (#40672152)
X has replies? I thought they shut that off.
Re:Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad by dwighttk on Thursday June 13, 2024 @02:21PM (#40672862)
This is designed to encourage you to login
Re:Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad by garaetjjte on Thursday June 13, 2024 @01:16PM (#40672183)
>threads have failed to load whenever I click into a Tweet

To be fair to Musk, it's like that for years.