[HN Gopher] Nuzzel is going away for now
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Nuzzel is going away for now
Author : rathertrue
Score : 11 points
Date : 2021-05-04 18:47 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.nuzzel.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.nuzzel.com)
| flakiness wrote:
| I used to use Nuzzel and I liked it a lot, although I stopped
| using it for some reasons I don't remember.
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| For me, the whole point of the service was to get interesting
| links without exposing myself to the hostility the social media
| tends to have. In other words, I could use Twitter without
| engaging with it.
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| I don't expect the less-engaging nature of the service lasts
| after the acquisition. If they create a paid link aggregation
| service however, that can be something loved from people who stay
| away from the timelines. I'll maintain a lukewarm hope there.
| spullara wrote:
| You can do an advanced search against your follow list and
| filter out replies and only tweets with links. Might be useful
| for you.
| tedyoung wrote:
| I'm a bit user of Nuzzel and this isn't entirely unexpected, but
| I'm disappointed. Nuzzel allowed me to catch up on links from my
| Twitter stream without me getting caught up in infinite scrolling
| and distracting conversations. It didn't replace Twitter, but let
| me use it in a different way.
|
| Nuzzel replaced a similar -- but much better -- tool that I can
| no longer remember, after it shut down as well. At this points
| I'll probably have to create yet another side-project to do what
| Nuzzel was doing for me.
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