Should TAN ban X?

Who said that?!?!?

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The barrage of tweets from @Magnus overnight has rendered the Middle East thread pretty much inaccessible.

Bravo, mate. (Sarcastic applause)

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Hereā€™s a tip: use Firefox with uBlock Origin, that seems to stop me from getting tweet previews at least.

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Also, donā€™t hate the player, hate the game. Iā€™m sure @Magnus would rather use an alternative platform/method of delivering information if he could.

Iā€™ve got a lot of time for @Magnus , but is it really necessary to put 40-odd tweets in one post?

As @Mascot said earlier in this thread, people need to be more selective about what they share from that platform.

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Having actually read virtually all of them thanks to the useful embeds, Iā€™d say they were very informative and provided good information. But I can also understand your perspective. The primary issue in this case I think is really that there have been a lot of developments that are rather difficult to distil down to shorter blocks of texts without losing something essential and/or taking a lot more time.

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@Magnus is a trusted forum member, who posts useful and interesting content.

If people point blank refuse to open a Tweet because it goes against their principles and opinion that EVERYTHING on Twitter is bad, then fair enough each to their own.

NOT everything on Twitter is bad, and itā€™s so simple to just scroll past what you donā€™t want to see.

Itā€™s a bit like refusing to watch any channel but the BBC because adverts are annoying, instead of just pausing them and then ffwd past them

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I think the original point made was that the way tweets are embedded here it makes loading these pages really difficult because they slow down the loading quite a lot?

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Load quickly for me, but I have a Twitter account.

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I thought that long post was very informative and spent probably 30 min on that one. I donā€™t really understand you here. It was relevant updates and explanations to the ongoing situation. Not something you find in the traditional media. I posted another more ligththearted one, mocking the absurdity of the situation regarding the defence and not as serious and informative, but that/,those were very short.

The long post you refer to was one of the better posts I have posted in a few months, I thought. More how I used to post back when I spent far more time reporting on the Ukraine War with updates on ongoing developments. A lot of people appreciated that, but it was too time consuming for me so i eventually stopped
But am I supposed to just write without posting sources, in your opinion ? Then whatā€™s the point ?
If you donā€™t want to know what is going on, why not just scroll ? I scroll through hundreds of posts here myself.
And I am fairly selective with my twitter-sources, probably far more than most.

I am sorry you feel that way. I will always have a lot of time for you, you know that, but i donā€™t agree here and I also donā€™t truly understand why it is bothering you so much. Its mostly just information. Some of it is some what speculative (but I usually highlight that), but most of it turns out to be correct. I only post a tiny fraction of what I read. Not everything that comes across my screen.

In any case, i wish you a good evening and hope you are enjoying yourself and cooking some nice food.

All the best.

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I donā€™t know if everyone experienced the same problem, but I access TAN from my iPhone and that one post caused the entire thread to take ages to load and then crash entirely.

It really detracted from the user experience.

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I am sorry. I do not have the same user experience. I donā€™t know why that happens to you.

But I have to go now. I am visiting a friend.

Take care, Git.

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Spend less on lunch and more on a decent WiFi connection?

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Hmmmmmm. Lobster and caviar, or @Alright_Now_Legend and @Dane ?

Tough decision.

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People who eat lobsters are massive cunts

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TAN pretty much peaked in the four posts above.

Iā€™d consider shutting it down. Nothing this good will ever happen again.

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Do these not go against your environmental beliefs?

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Lobster from Scotland and caviar from France? Nope.

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It will at 5:45 :slight_smile:

Ahem

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