I also like that so much of the relevant information stays nested under the post on LessWrong, whereas on Twitter I find it much harder to systematically read various offshoot threads of a tweet
Take the lowest leaf of a thread, then systematically go up the tweets, and expand all the ones with multiple children, and keep going until they’re all expanded, and then start to read down.
Open the author’s twitter profile, view their replies, then click to open all their replies in new tabs so that I make sure to have all the subthreads
I also like that so much of the relevant information stays nested under the post on LessWrong, whereas on Twitter I find it much harder to systematically read various offshoot threads of a tweet
Yeah. My typical twitter interactions are either:
Take the lowest leaf of a thread, then systematically go up the tweets, and expand all the ones with multiple children, and keep going until they’re all expanded, and then start to read down.
Open the author’s twitter profile, view their replies, then click to open all their replies in new tabs so that I make sure to have all the subthreads
agreed, but these problems are UI problems. not a critique of the concept of being “fully recursive” that LW is not