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>>Ozarki+(OP)
Any non-twitter reporting on this?

Edit: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pardons-silk-road-fou...

>>loeg+xa
It seems a lot of reddit communities are starting to block xitter as it's painful to use now without an account. Should HN do the same?

>>Cub3+bv
The main reason all the subs made this change today is because of the elon nazi salute, not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents.

>>easter+aB
> not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents.

Yep, Twitter has had aggressive authentication gating for almost 2yrs now and HN frequently has Twitter links

>>dmix+CB
HN often has twitter links when this is the primary source; in that case in comments there are usually links to mirrors or threadreader.

Here twitter is not the main source, there are better ones (both better quality and more user friendly).

I would like a rule to avoid submissions that are login walled unless this is the primary source and an open mirror is available.

>>thih9+xO
I've been on HN since the very beginning and the solution has always been simple: if the post is auth/pay-walled then post archive links or copy paste the text in comments.

I get why there's noise about banning X suddenly but lets not pretend it's for sudden technical/UX concerns. No one is calling for NYT, WSJ, or WaPo submissions to be avoided. Twitter had auth gating for many years before Elon.

>>dmix+iD3
That’s my point; like I said:

> I would like a rule to avoid submissions that are login walled unless this is the primary source and an open mirror is available.

Twitter had auth gating but also mirrors; now Nitter is discontinued.

>>thih9+zI3
Fair enough. For the record I despise how bad twitters gating is :/