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Comment by supermatt | original | Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
[−]supermatt · 2026-08-07 Fri 16:21 UTC · link
A limit that worked well for who?

Almost every twitter/x post submitted to HN has people labelling their posts as "X of Y" threads, using images as text, or using pro account posts.

You can see it yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com Ive just looked at 30 and each of them exceed 280 chars by far.

[−]Retr0id · 2026-08-07 Fri 16:31 UTC · link
It works well for microbloggers.
[−]supermatt · 2026-08-07 Fri 16:49 UTC · link
But clearly not the microbloggers on twitter/x, Bluesky, etc, who use the patterns I mentioned.
[−]Retr0id · 2026-08-07 Fri 18:17 UTC · link
Those are definitionally not microbloggers. It's ok for a platform explicitly for microblogging to not cater to their macroblogging desires.
[−]supermatt · 2026-08-07 Fri 20:18 UTC · link
Definitionally not?

"Microblogs, for example on Twitter..." https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/microblo...

"Some popular social networks such as X (formerly Twitter), Threads, Tumblr, Mastodon, and Bluesky can be viewed as collections of microblogs." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging