[HN Gopher] Tweak New Twitter
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Tweak New Twitter
Author : ivank
Score : 81 points
Date : 2023-01-24 05:12 UTC (17 hours ago)
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| andirk wrote:
| Edge has a store?
| ozten wrote:
| Space Karen free labor task force... assemble! Form of... a
| Chrome extension.
| insin wrote:
| Well actually, we're the Twitter Product Decisions - Good For
| Their Bottom Line (yes, that turned out well), Bad For Humans
| Who Like Their Brain To Feel Good free labor task force, Est.
| 2018 [0] when Old Twitter started mixing algorithmic tweets
| into the main timeline (and when we discovered moving Retweets
| out of the main timeline is a _massive_ QoL bump)
|
| [0] https://github.com/insin/manage-twitter-engagement
| the_gipsy wrote:
| I want to block accounts of the promoted tweets I get. If enough
| people did that...
| thomond wrote:
| Am I the only person this works for?
| insin wrote:
| There is a longstanding Tweak New Twitter bug (forgot to add a
| case clause to a switch statement) which someone finally found
| this week and submitted a PR for, which was accidentally
| causing all promoted tweets to be hidden. Handing my programmer
| card in as we type.
| pornel wrote:
| Enough people did that once, and then Twitter changed blocking
| to ignore that. I've used a blocklist of top-500 advertisers
| that was making rounds, and it stopped working after a while.
|
| You can't win with a platform on the platform's turf.
| collinvandyck76 wrote:
| I tried that for a long time. The exercise got old after a
| while.
| pawelduda wrote:
| Idk, I appreciate them working hard to fix my compulsive Twitter
| scrolling habit
| dom96 wrote:
| Really cool. It seems there are many such extensions for
| enhancing Twitter and other websites. I wonder if there are any
| `awesome-x`-style repos that list all such browser extensions.
|
| I myself developed an extension for integrating Mastodon with
| Twitter recently[0]. It's a great way to get exposure to Mastodon
| without leaving the familiar Twitter UI.
|
| [0] - https://chirper.picheta.me/
| mmastrac wrote:
| The Elon acquisition forcing me to finally break my Twitter habit
| was awesome. Whenever I go back, I started to wonder why I spent
| so much time there. Mastodon has been positive in other ways -
| I'm posting less there than I did on Twitter, and the people
| there are generally less toxic overall (though I've been
| carefully curating who I follow this time around).
|
| I think we'll continue to see social media fracture and federate
| as time goes on, and this will turn out to be a net benefit for
| society. For now, my mental health is definitely better.
| MuffinFlavored wrote:
| > Whenever I go back, I started to wonder why I spent so much
| time there
|
| What about same question posed to yourself (and myself), but
| for this website (Hacker News) instead of Twitter? :)
| arcticbull wrote:
| I was also terminally online at twitter, and before the
| holidays I just dropped it. Got tired of all the complaining
| about how it was going to collapse, and my experience
| continually just got worse week over week. It's given me a lot
| of my time back!
| crimsoneer wrote:
| Instead of an extension to un-twitterfy twitter, I want one to
| tweetify Mastodon...
| _han wrote:
| Which Twittery features are you missing in Mastodon?
| [deleted]
| JoshTriplett wrote:
| Automatically pulling in more posts from the graph and
| automatically linking to people _on their server_ rather than
| mine; trying to not feel as "isolating".
|
| If someone reposts a poll into my timeline, the poll shows as
| having 0 answers, or 1 answer if I answer it.
|
| If someone posts a reply that's visible in my timeline, the
| post they're replying to isn't reliably visible.
|
| If I'm on someone's (remote) profile on my (local) server,
| there isn't a giant obvious link for "go to the real profile
| so I can view all their posts". I have to manually construct
| the URL for their profile.
|
| Conversely, if I'm on someone's profile on their server, I
| have to copy-paste their URL into my instance's search bar
| before I can follow them; that _should_ be one click, which
| could be done with some browser integration.
| mjmsmith wrote:
| Take a look at Elk [1], it's the closest thing I've seen to a
| Twitter UI.
|
| [1] https://elk.zone/
| HerbMcM wrote:
| There are other frontends that are much more Twitter like
| pleroma, soapbox. Soapbox seems to be adding features more than
| others but the dev is persona non grata in many
| fediverse/mastodon circles.
|
| Using plain pleroma right now, I want to try standing up
| misskey maybe on a weekend.
| hendersoon wrote:
| I don't want to use another extension. If it could be done inside
| uBlock Origin, that's about the length I'm willing to go. Barring
| that, I've found myself simply going to twitter.com far, far less
| on desktop. And not at all on mobile.
| huhtenberg wrote:
| It can't be done with uBlock because Twitter randomized pretty
| much all DOM element class names. You really need to parse the
| content, then climb up the tree and trim grand/parent nodes to
| remove all the junk. Used to be much easier few years ago with
| descriptive class names, but they changed that.
|
| * I'm not the OP, but I made a similar extension.
| lpapez wrote:
| Ok, so don't use it then or think of an alternate way of
| achieving the same thing. Why would you even comment something
| like this?
| hendersoon wrote:
| This is a discussion forum in which participants contribute
| their take on the issue at hand. That was my take, on-topic.
|
| Your response instead attacked another poster, which did not
| contribute to the discussion at all.
| KerrAvon wrote:
| [flagged]
| insin wrote:
| Author here, this the website where you go to get customer
| support from Google, right? /s
|
| Was everyone who reviews extensions at Google part of the cohort
| who were suddenly given a cardboard box and shown the door
| recently? The extension has been blowing up in Japan over the
| weekend (user numbers more than doubled from 29,000 to 68,000
| over the last few days) so I internationalized it to add a
| Japanese locale (and incidentally accidentally used "en" for the
| default locale rather than "en_US" which everyone seems to
| default to, for which the Edge Extension Dashboard completely
| wiped my store listing in their interface - cheers).
|
| New versions on Chrome Web Store are usually approved first
| within in a few hours, but it's been sitting for more than 24
| hours now and their contact form suggests you only bother them
| after 3 weeks! It doesn't help that the version I submitted has
| invalid locale strings for Chrome (which worked fine in Firefox,
| the default browser launched by the web-ext extension development
| tool - thanks) and you can't back a known-bad version out of
| review.
|
| Yes, I too have read all the rants about being beholden to Big
| Extension Store and have nobody to blame but myself :)
|
| Also, happy to answer any questions you have about writing
| extensions on top of React Native for Web apps - New Twitter was
| a fix it or quit it situation for me, and I ended up getting lots
| of practice at the former when it's looking like I probably
| should have just done the latter.
| scotcha1 wrote:
| my experience with shipping updates to the google chrome store
| is that you typically are waiting days if not weeks, depending
| on the time of year. 24 hours seems incredibly fast! hopefully
| it will get approved soon, good luck!
| jdorfman wrote:
| I'm going to give this a shot. I have been using "Minimal Theme
| for Twitter" extension for a couple of years and love it. I'm
| less distracted by hiding what's trending, etc.
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