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Show HN: TweeView - A Tree Visualisation of Twitter Conversations
Author : edent
Score : 37 points
Date : 2021-09-13 17:38 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (tweeview.ml)
(TXT) w3m dump (tweeview.ml)
| paulgb wrote:
| Cool, looks like the visualization from Treeverse.app but
| attached to the Twitter API instead of as a browser extension?
|
| (Full disclosure, I wrote Treeverse, but I see you cited it in
| the readme in keeping with the license so I'm 100% on board with
| this)
| leppr wrote:
| It would be more useful if one could either follow a link to the
| replies, or read the full tweet text of the corresponding node by
| clicking on it.
|
| Also the node div should have a background color, for when an
| image doesn't load.
|
| As an aside, even though @paulgb says he's not bothered with the
| use of his library that way, it's so similar that I think common
| OSS etiquette would've been to acknowledge the original project
| more prominently.
| edent wrote:
| Cheers. It is all open source on
| https://github.com/edent/TweeView - where I also credit Paul.
|
| The main 2D view is based on his work - but the interactive
| view (and 3D views) are based on other projects.
| westurner wrote:
| The 4D view looks a bit like Gource with the wawa aura and
| all.
|
| Is there anything that finds cycles in the tweet graph (quote
| tweet "edges")? And unshortened link frequencies, maybe
| graphviz wrote:
| It's not often that one can comment on "gratuitous use of 4D".
| yewenjie wrote:
| Is there any browser extension that turns Twitter threads into
| reddit like simple looking tree-view?
| mmmmkay wrote:
| came here to say this. This would be great as a browser
| extension.
| paulgb wrote:
| https://treeverse.app/
| ssalka wrote:
| ^I have been using this for a long time, very positive
| experience with it (maybe gets a bit after excessive
| expanding/branching on a large thread), and it works with
| tweets older than 7 days...
| gavinray wrote:
| Also came here to ask this.
|
| Imageboard style replies would be fine too -- where it's flat
| and there's a single top post and the way replies work is that
| they "link" to the post number of the person they are replying
| to and clicking the post number link jumps you to that post.
|
| Basically anything but how Twitter currently does it. I've been
| using computers literally since I was 3 years old and I still
| don't understand how to navigate and use their UI.
| 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
| "Basically anything but how Twitter currently does it."
|
| This is what I use when I need to look at a Twitter page.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28071491
|
| Saved in a script called "twt", usage as follows
| twt username |twt > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm
|
| Although I use a text-only browser not Firefox so its
| designed for that. Its not perfect but its better than
| anything else Ive seen short of
| https://github.com/twintproject/twint and its still faster
| and smaller than installing Python.
|
| The future of the web could be that users request JSON and
| then users create a page to their liking, client-side, using
| _their own_ Javascript (or whatever language they want to
| use). As it stands, on todays web a "tech" company, often
| using Javascript, causes the users browser to request the
| JSON and then more downloaded Javascript, not controlled by
| the user, creates a user-hostile page for the user to consume
| the JSON. Its a Rube Goldberg machine designed for tracking
| and advertising, not users.
|
| Imagine if the user conscisouly requests the JSON and is then
| in control of designing the page for herself. What were
| tweets but short strings of text. Hard to believe that now
| looking at a Twitter page. Thats because the user isnt in
| control of the design. Remember the "tech" company does not
| own the data. Its public information. User-generated content
| wrapped in user-hostile, developer-generated markup.
| kawfey wrote:
| something that did this for email would be amazing as well. I
| subscribe to dozens of oldschool ham radio forums, which get
| threaded to all hell and go on for weeks and months. the
| native mailing list archiver (like groups.io or mailman using
| hyperkitty[0] or worse, not [1]) is just chaos. Very hard to
| read, and everyone email clients decide differently how to
| format text, whitespace, and previous replies so some
| messages will be miles long containing the entire context of
| the message before them. There has to be something out there
| that turns email forums into a reddit- or HN-like
| threaded/indented interface.
|
| [0]https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/amsat-
| bb@amsat.org...
|
| [1]lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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