MostlyStable21 minutes ago
The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better, by a lot. I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw away email address sites, so I have an account that I don't care about that I can use for twitter....but the experience just sucks. I don't know how any stands it, even if they don't mind needing an account.
corvad2 hours ago
I guess X never heard of the Streisand effect...
agnosticmantis2 hours ago
Any user scripts that automatically redirect to a working instance?
ranger_dangeran hour ago
add-sub-mul-div2 hours ago
We could stop thinking of them as walled gardens we're trying to get into and start thinking of them as quarantines for the Eternal September population.
delichon2 hours ago
> quarantines for the Eternal September population
Hacker News actually has a way to do this quarantine, a version that only counts votes from accounts created before 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic. About a decade after Eternal September started, but not bad.
randallsquared26 minutes ago
Decade and a half, really. Eternal September was 1993 or 1994, right?
defrost2 hours ago
FWiW as an aside, it appears to count votes from December 2008 accounts (as just tested using this 2008-12-26 account).
So that's at least strictly before 2009.
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Petersipoi3 hours ago
Awesome. Let's all start using this on HN so we end up with a bunch of broken links in a few years
dadoum2 hours ago
They would become links with only a wrong domain, so I am not very worried about that personally.
bigbadfeline40 minutes ago
> a bunch of broken links in a few years
Who cares, by that time the originals and their copies would be a lot less worthy of viewing.