They write the content, they get to decide the medium. They are not trying to sell us something. And neither you or me are paying them to publish for one of us specifically. It's like getting free beer and then complaining how we don't like that brand and it too warm anyway.
I suppose too many people made well-intended suggestions (or worse), so they're now pissed at the general HN crowd.
That said, I share the sentiment (especially when hitting the "login to enjoy twitter" wall) and also wondered how it can be less effort to create these tweets than producing for $alternate_medium. But I enjoy most of what foone puts there, so I just do a s/twitter\.com/nitter.net/ and get on with my life.
OTOH I'm just happy they don't do Facebook livestreams :P
> It's a pain in the ass for them to publish it like that
Foone repeatedly said they'd either publish the content like this or not at all because it is the least painful way for them to put content out. Not sure why you think you know better than them?
Also, even though the readership experience might be subpar compared to a blog post, it is hard to imagine that putting out a set of tweets would be harder to do than putting out a blog post in general. Anyone who has ever tried to write a good blog post I think will relate to this. Writing well is hard. Tweeting well is less hard.
Come on, typing a short description and uploading a picture 100 times is easier than typing everything in one block and adding a few connectors here and there?
Obviously that's their prerogative and they can do whatever they want but objectively speaking it is more work and I sincerely hope the trend will die.
Yes it absolutely is if you write the tweets while you actually do the thing.
Writing a blog post would require you to do the same, but not share while you are going through the experience (so no helpful replies from your followers etc), then having to edit (as blog def requires something a bit more polished) and post it on the blog that you need to run or have run for you some way. And then you would need to somehow get people to actually read that still.
So I totally believe them (besides believing them they are telling me their valid view in the first place).
foone has ADHD, and can't complete a blog post because of that. Asking them why they don't just write a blog is like asking a blind person why they don't just read normal text instead of braille, they literally can't.
I think literally can't is a little bit strong here, as Foone does also have a blog: https://foone.wordpress.com/
That being said, if using twitter is easier for them and it's a choice of either publishing this stuff on Twitter or not at all, then I'm glad they use Twitter.
Edit: I just noticed that the blog posts were originally published as twitter threads, so maybe my point doesn't stand.
