[HN Gopher] Nuzzel is going away for now
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Nuzzel is going away for now
Author : rathertrue
Score : 30 points
Date : 2021-05-04 18:47 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.nuzzel.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.nuzzel.com)
| freediver wrote:
| Idea behind Nuzzle had incredible potential. Sift through all the
| noise of Twitter in one click?
|
| And incredibly, one of the potentially most useful features of
| Twitter, that they received on the plate through acquistion, and
| completely failed to incorporate into the product, is getting
| shut down. Decisions like these are definetely either way above
| or way below my pay grade.
| Grimm1 wrote:
| "Twitter has spun up an internal team of Nuzzel acolytes whose
| goal is to take the best of the Nuzzel experience and build it
| directly into Twitter."
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| My condolences to those acolytes, who will likely be
| sidelined and ignored in favor of features that are better
| for twitter's bottom line, instead of the users.
| 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.
|
| 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.
|
| 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.
| flakiness wrote:
| Interesting. Not clear how "against your follow list" works
| though. Any tip is appreciated! https://twitter.com/search-
| advanced?lang=en
| spullara wrote:
| Dunno. Probably in the post request. But it shows up on the
| main search page as an option.
|
| https://i.imgur.com/UIemCg6.png
| EricE wrote:
| Yup - this is what I liked about Nuzzel, especially as
| political rhetoric in particular continues to get overheated on
| Twitter. Ultimately I found ignoring Twitter to be even better.
| I surface more interesting stuff on sites like this one than
| Twitter. It wasn't always like that, but Twitter has been
| moving from being focused on a way to discover ideas to an
| outrage generating machine in the soulless chase for engagement
| at all costs for some time now. It's rather disgusting so I no
| longer help feed the beast and perpetuate the problem. And I
| have a lot less stress in my life as well - win win!
| Siira wrote:
| You should be able to use some twitter scraping library to
| scrape tweets of your followees. Add some RSS feeds, and then
| sort the links based on repetition count, and email yourself
| the top 10 each week.
| PostHeat wrote:
| I'm adding some of the Tweet features of Nuzzel to my startup
| https://postheat.com - would you mind sharing your favorite use
| case?
| flakiness wrote:
| It's for myself finding interesting links. Not for building
| audience or anything. Probably not a target user of your
| startup.
| 1cvmask wrote:
| I met the founder of Nuzzel Jonathan Abrams at an event in SF
| at their peak hype years ago and remember him being extremely
| arrogant and dismissive. Although I am not sure if that is at
| all correlated with this unfortunate outcome.
| OscarTheGrinch wrote:
| I follow a bunch of journalists that linked to stories they
| liked, then used nuzzle as a news aggregator, 9+ likes might
| be worth a read, 20+ likes something big going on etc.
|
| Fannying around with Twitters advanced filters to replicate
| this feels like trying to get the much promised Flash level
| of interactivity out of HTML5.
|
| I am sad Nuzzel is being shitcanned. Somthing good has been
| lost.
| 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.
| edoceo wrote:
| n8n.io might help here, low/no code solutions for things like
| this
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