"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."
Understood, but the hope is that if enough people complain, the practices may change for the better. Over time, the tweet-thread stories appear more frequently.
If that and other reader-hostile posts continue to become more common, we'll be left with NYT, Medium, WP, and Twitter as our only links. HN will go the way of Slashdot and Digg...
That hope is based on a misunderstanding. There's no human consciousness deciding on such 'practices' - it's just a stochastic cloud, as are the complaints. Stochastic clouds don't listen to stochastic clouds.
Even if that weren't true, it would still be a bad trade for HN to put anything other than discussion quality at the top of the priority list. That would be a much faster track to the deterioration of the site.
FWIW, I found this complaint a useful heads up. For back-button breakage and paywalls, they're even more useful since I never want to visit the link in those cases. With twitter threads, it depends on the device I'm on.
