yewenjie

Is there any browser extension that turns Twitter threads into reddit like simple looking tree-view?

gavinray

Also came here to ask this.

Imageboard style replies would be fine too -- where it's flat and there's a single top post and the way replies work is that they "link" to the post number of the person they are replying to and clicking the post number link jumps you to that post.

Basically anything but how Twitter currently does it. I've been using computers literally since I was 3 years old and I still don't understand how to navigate and use their UI.

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"Basically anything but how Twitter currently does it."

This is what I use when I need to look at a Twitter page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28071491

Saved in a script called "twt", usage as follows

   twt username |twt > 1.htm
   firefox ./1.htm
Although I use a text-only browser not Firefox so its designed for that. Its not perfect but its better than anything else Ive seen short of https://github.com/twintproject/twint and its still faster and smaller than installing Python.

The future of the web could be that users request JSON and then users create a page to their liking, client-side, using their own Javascript (or whatever language they want to use). As it stands, on todays web a "tech" company, often using Javascript, causes the users browser to request the JSON and then more downloaded Javascript, not controlled by the user, creates a user-hostile page for the user to consume the JSON. Its a Rube Goldberg machine designed for tracking and advertising, not users.

Imagine if the user conscisouly requests the JSON and is then in control of designing the page for herself. What were tweets but short strings of text. Hard to believe that now looking at a Twitter page. Thats because the user isnt in control of the design. Remember the "tech" company does not own the data. Its public information. User-generated content wrapped in user-hostile, developer-generated markup.