ilx is twitter now

Sorry if that's racist but it's just how I feel

— Jordie 🔵 (@BarstoolJordie) November 15, 2016

https://mobile.twitter.com/louisjagger/status/860242068794462208

@BarstoolJordie fp

— Louis Jagger (@louisjagger) May 4, 2017

Things used to be simple. You just tried to raise 'em right. Now—with social media—being a good grandparent means being a good brandparent. pic.twitter.com/3FtYTAgTe6

— Big NAFTA Jeb Lund (@Mobute) March 24, 2017

more like twitter is ilx now, rehashing all the discussions done better here

no, op is right, ilx has diminished itself by imitating social media, it's a tiny bit of a bummer but wcyd

imo both are right

Despacito #1 in the world. Thank you

— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) April 24, 2017

the beauty of ilx and other traditional message boards is that there's not this in-built power imbalance where a conversation started by someone with a huge follower count, even if others are making more cogent points, is dominated by whoever can get boosted to the top by their popularity

the ilx hivemind has its own bad tendencies cultivated over the years and has alienated some great voices, though, so it's not an inherently superior form

BLOBY IS BALLS DEEP IN 2017

— Mr. Blobby (@WorstBlobby) January 1, 2017

i've been superseded by mr. blobby

mh you are right about that. but stylistically ilx has been very heavily impacted by twitter/the rise of social media. I mean note that this post ends now instead of 1000 words from now.

Forget May the Fourth. The only Fourth I care about is the Fourth of July. Independence Day, baby. Merica.

— Cloyd Rivers (@CloydRivers) May 4, 2017

agree 100%

wait geordie racer and i invented supershort ilx posts in 2001, only nitsuh was allowed to post at length

I guess that's why I never felt the need of twitter in my life.

How do we get @WorstBlobby a blue tick?

RIP big poppa

i just found out my uncle used to work for nintendo in the secret mario division when i was in grade 3.. i found his security card and gun

— volte (@vvvolte) September 22, 2015

on the other hand on olde ilx JCLC's post would be 1000 words to make the same point

pic.twitter.com/wcAp3ml8fD

— AMO AMO (@xxnx957) April 18, 2017

the ilx hivemind has its own bad tendencies cultivated over the years and has alienated some great voices, though, so it's not an inherently superior form

― a landlocked exclave (mh),

i didnt fp u for this but only cos its u man

The only criticism I have to make of you, if I may, is that you all want to appear too clever.

— Lacan sans contexte (@Lacan_nocontext) April 27, 2017

btw i akways liked jclcs thousand word posts. about cheese mainly iirc.

Jacques I feel like he who smelt it dealt it in this instance n'est-pas

beauty of ilx's format is that it can be twitter, irc, and a blog all on one dynamic platform

also I think tweet embeds are sometimes good and sometimes bad, can we make them have a smaller font somehow? they're very big

The clean format of ilx has ruined the rest of the internet for me. All of it looks cluttered and sickening.

Lightweight reporter Alex Pareene @pareene is known as a total joke in political circles. Hence, he writes for Loser Salon. @Salon

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 15, 2012

twitter doesn't have anybody like me on it

where you gonna go for the el tomBOT-oh?
twitter? aint no
facebook? aint no
etc.

Ty v mucho mr tomboto

Ed Balls

also I think tweet embeds are sometimes good and sometimes bad, can we make them have a smaller font somehow? they're very big

can we get them to embed in zing

Is that Pareene tweet real or.

Actually twitter is ilx.

#notallilx

Trayce, it has a link to twitter.com where you can view it's authenticity for yourself, if you can believe your eyes

@calummarsh my initial reaction to this pic.twitter.com/Kw0C31NqSv

— Matt Erspamer (@erspamer_matt) March 18, 2017

you can see who has you blocked (??) on twitter and not who has you blacklisted on ilx though

You are blocked from following @M4ttHelgeson and viewing @M4ttHelgeson's Tweets. Learn more

?!?

You can blacklist people on ilx? How?

browser scripts

I mean... why did site new answers tell me there's a new answer on this thread -- I don't see any?!

_also I think tweet embeds are sometimes good and sometimes bad, can we make them have a smaller font somehow? they're very big_

can we get them to embed in zing

Sorry, to clarify, they embed on the click thru but they look like a big mess before... can we get it to show something slicker, the same way [ b ] becomes * , etc

Lightweight reporter Alex Pareene @pareene is known as a total joke in political circles. Hence, he writes for Loser Salon. @Salon

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 15, 2012

Wait, is this tweet what Ally was referring to the other day? I thought it was about something new, but I couldn't find it.

How to Pronounce Poonit ↺RT❤ https://t.co/vJ6V7BqKsu #vagina #shakeeb #horney #chaki #ilxor #chakibi #goatfuckers #shag #

— DVPhilip (@DvPhilipgarcia) August 9, 2017

???

DVPhilip

Tweets
523K

Followers
23

thats quite a strike rate

What's up with all the ilxor hashtags on twtr?

im sorry for posting tweets

upload your twitter bitch I'm the topic
Profess it but
Gucci didn't graduate from college
Your girlfriend say's my ear rings are erotic
My lambo doors open upward they're robotic

I think you've been getting radge about this stuff much longer than anyone else on this thread ftr!

i donated £3.60 to Loki because I thought some of his investigative stuff is important, even though Vice ran another piece that revealed a further layer of rotten onion around the JP project (namely the stuff about "affordable housing" quotas involved with the property developer whose pocket she is in). But even though it was a tiny amount of money it's more than I'll ever give to the Graun.

i still dont know what a shitpost is

unless they all are

Also did not mean to come across “get an iPhone plebes”, but flagging is the android app, I just called it zing in the manner you’d call a vacuum cleaner a hoover or w/e.

xp shitposting is like when you post the news that Terry Jones has died in the form of a completely unremarkable Dennis Perrin tweet the day after people were getting annoyed at you for posting too many Dennis Perrin tweets.

to be clear, I didn't mind, even found it slightly funny

I have some extremely melty views on Rage as formed by the medium of Twitter if you ever feel your piss is insufficiently boiled, calzino!

And of course I genuinely like pretty much everyone on the thread, and we have far more in common than divides us etc etc.

It isn't about what we have in common though

a level of civility between ourselves is good and to be encouraged/worked on but i think expecting us to be civil to third parties or to avoid rhetorical (pointless) radge is a bit beyond the possible

As much as the pushback on this issue makes some sense, I would hope the fact that many posters are anti-tweets, have expressed their hatred of twitter in general, have identified specific accounts they are weary of seeing on ilx, etc., might prompt pro-twitter posters to consider whether they need to post quite so many tweets. Maybe like a 5% reduction would be a kind gesture to your ilxor chums. If you come here because you hate us all and like pissing people off, I guess fp-ing might be a better solution than asking for a new user feature.

For one thing, and nashwan made a similar point earlier, I have less control over what tweets I see on ilx than I do on twitter, which can be galling (e.g., when someone posts a Trump tweet, which I can't help but have a reaction to).

I kinda loathe twitter as a medium and social media in general but don't generally mind the tweet embeds of ILXors given to careful curation and often appreciate that they share things here that I otherwise would've never seen.

my position is also that twitter embeds are fine, but there's a proxy war concerning the politics threads which is almost a parallel issue

just to reiterate, it's not the tweets themselves that annoy me, it's that embedding tweets fucks up the page scrolling to #unread. if it just showed the text of the tweets and didn't mess up the page that would be fine with me. or if whatever is fucking up #unread was fixed that would also work

I have never got on w/ 'real' Twitter so I appreciate people giving me a digest-like version of it here. It's enough.

Have no beef w/ Morbs but Perrin and that godawful Nixon account seem like very poor representations of his own, more bracing opinions.

Honestly what is the Dennis Perrin thing/who is Dennis Perrin, is there really so much discussion over an account with 1k followers?

there's a proxy war concerning the politics threads which is almost a parallel issue

― opden gnash (imago), Thursday, 23 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink

🧐

imago otm there kinda

(assuming i understand him) (i.e assuming he's said what i believe except in a weird way)

There should be a thread for Dennis Perrin deets.

I think that there's an argument that the sheer amount of NOISE and wasted energy and pointless beefing on Twitter is just exhausting and depressing and the more purposeful noise and wasted energy and beefing we do here is something of a refuge from that. I have some sympathy with that tbh.

Another thing that might just be me but run it up the flagpole anyway, is ILX twitter users posting stuff from some complete fucking nonentity who, for some reason, is some sort of twitter celebrity and somehow expecting non-twitter users to know who the person is and be familiar with their shtick. Admittedly there was an election on at the time so things were getting a little feverish, but I literally had to stop and ask several times if the person being re-tweeted was being serious or was some sort of ho-ho twitter parodist - not helped by the fact that 99% of twitter parodies are as funny as tooth extraction.

^^^^^^

this is becoming a bit of a multifaceted issue

rly just need for tweets not to mess up "unread" answers thks

I think when someone puts a tweet like that is to show how some people are thinking about something. It probably needs a robust post of your own to set it in context so I am sure if you aren't on twitter it's alienating but it is politics, it's usually aligned to what the issue of the day might be, and in a fast moving day it can be difficult to do. XP to Tom D

"completely unremarkable" nu board name

Put me down as being in favor of keeping Twitter embeds. I think they are a great way to get key information or links on here quickly. Yes, they are sometimes abused, but are more often not.

If I post a Tweet from some unknown person, it's probably because there is some information to share, and probably has little to do with the actual person who tweeted. There's a good chance that I don't know who they are either, and I would never expect anyone on here to be familiar with random Twitter personalities.

Pretty sure Dr. Morbius is the only person on here posting Dennis Perrin or similar tweets, and most everyone else doesn't care. It's part of the Morbs brand.

I think when someone puts a tweet like that is to show how some people are thinking about something. It probably needs a robust post of your own to set it in context so I am sure if you aren't on twitter it's alienating but it is politics, it's usually aligned to what the issue of the day might be, and in a fast moving day it can be difficult to do. XP to Tom D

The way Twitter embeds look on the iPhone is EXACTLY how it should be done on Desktop and would solve a lot of these problems: just a nice mildly unobtrusive blue quote box. ILX programmer dude, get on that. And while you’re at it, maybe fix the error I always get when I try to remove a Bookmark on my iPhone.

i think it should be possible to turn off twitter embeds and convert them to just a url link to the tweet in the same way as turning off youtube embeds works on here

^^ this, please

whichever .css I use, or possibly one of the anti-tracking plugins I use, already converts all twitter embeds to plain text, so everyone complaining should just set their browser preferences more sensibly

(personally I’d rather see the embeds, but my browser has no problem jumping to unread messages, so I’m happy to know I’m getting a tradeoff)

I just gave my monitor a swift kick and now instead of twitter embeds I'm just seeing an array of flickering green lines. So that's another quick fix if you want to give it a go.

I ate a live duck

THE FIRST THING I ATE WAS CLOACA TODAY

It depends on the tweet I think. 'This guy's done a thread on the effects of this policy' is obviously worth posting. 'Lol did Michael Gove just shit his pants in the Commons?' even more so. Some failed Labour candidate laying into the leadership in a way we've seen a million times before really isn't.

Sure, but someone laying into the failed Leadership candidate isn't either - I have full faith that we can produce this content locally and at a higher quality.

As someone who despises about 80% of the MPs from the political party I'm a member of. Sometimes I will favour anger and hatred over quality. But the austerity policies they helped through parliament did almost kill me twice so I will continue despising them until they die!

Obv sometimes a bit of chill is required but I don't think I'm only one on here that genuinely despairs at these fuckers grasping back control of the party and the commentary on it from nominally *left * media.

Tldr start a melt thread!

Whats your favorite kind of sandwich?

One of the nice things about Twitter embeds is context for links. And I don't even mean the Twitter user's commentary, but the link preview that shows the headline and image. Especially on a phone, it's easier to post a tweet that displays all of that information than to drop a URL and then have to describe what it is.

^ that I don't see this on either browser or zing is one reason that I usually endeavour to describe what I'm linking

i think it should be possible to turn off twitter embeds and convert them to just a url link to the tweet in the same way as turning off youtube embeds works on here

The way Twitter embeds look on the iPhone is EXACTLY how it should be done on Desktop and would solve a lot of these problems: just a nice mildly unobtrusive blue quote box. ILX programmer dude, get on that. And while you’re at it, maybe fix the error I always get when I try to remove a Bookmark on my iPhone.

lol <3

I hate the tweets on ilx but I just scroll past like I am humoring a dad who sent me an unsolicited blooper video.

most of them are just confusing that someone felt a need to curate it for another audience.

Oh, ILX programmer dude? I'm bored. Entertain me with this banana.

has anyone figured out mr. blobby's relation to 2020 yet

lol if we got rid of embeds there'd be a bunch of posts like "Someone on twitter said..."

yes that happened all of the time before twitter embeds

ilxors against quotation, want authentic posts in message board rockist shockah