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stillatit commented on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not · Posted by u/stillatit
This link is all you need to know about the lack of free-speech Twitter has.
https://themarkup.org/investigations/2023/09/15/twitter-is-s...
That's incredibly damning. The throttling of Substack writers is so cruel, especially considering how much these writers have contributed to Twitter.
stillatit commented on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not · Posted by u/stillatit
Since this got so much attention, I feel the need to add that the CEO of Substack is now saying that even accounting for fake views, their traffic from X has gone up substantially.
Tweet with graph: https://x.com/cjgbest/status/1985852384531394916
stillatit commented on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not · Posted by u/stillatit
Preloading links is often avoided because it creates a wide range of issues. Using up newspapers free stories a month on articles users never see etc. Speed just isn’t that useful by comparison.
Incompetence is obviously still a possibility, but the likely intent overcoming such issues is to make X seem to generate more traffic and thus appear to be more relevant.
>Using up newspapers free stories a month on articles users never see etc
Webviews are pretty quarantined from the main safari app. I don't think cookies persist, so I don't think this would be an issue.
stillatit commented on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not · Posted by u/stillatit
Nobody wants a damn web view. If I'm clicking off to a link, I may want to click to another app and back in and still be where it was... If it's in a webview that's gone as soon as I click out. Yes, you can open in Chrome or whatever, open in a browser, but that's a pain in the ass to do an the time. I hate web views, in all forms.
>Nobody wants a damn web view.
OP here. This might be a classic Hacker News sentiment that's not shared by normal users. Being able to instantly return to where you were without having to navigate apps is probably appreciated by a lot of people. (As would be preloading in this instance).
FWIW when I first started browsing HN a common complaint was websites being mobile sized. The sentiment here was they should be rendered in full desktop and require pinch-zooming and scrolling in all directions.
stillatit commented on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not · Posted by u/stillatit
Gary: "Sorry, YC is a pretty big place and I can't be all places at all times"
User: "I'm confused. why did you fund it then?"
Gary: "We're a partnership of 15 general partners"
Seemed to me like he was apoligizing for admitting them. However I see now he also added "I wouldn't count them out, one questionable video does not mean someone is bad". Maybe I misread it.