The funny thing is I'm sure they think they made an awesome gotcha argument 
Proposal to ban X.com links
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You could, just not the nudey type.
That is an interesting mountain range that you have built out of a molehill.
I think that you have missed that the original post was from a poster and not a staff member. A similar thread was started in the newbie.
We have also been discussing integration Bluesky for many months, not neccesarily as a Twitter replacement.
When we saw how many people posted asking for us to stop using Twitter we let Niall know and he and the admins had a discussion. The upshot was this poll so we can gauge sentiment to assist us in making a decision.
It is worth noting that to integrate Bluesky we first need to do non-trivial server upgrades that won't happen quickly.
So the options are,
- No change (for now at least)
- Get rid of Twitter embedding without Bluesky
- Get rid of Twitter embedding when Bluesky is integrated
Options #2 and #3 will have at least temporary impact which will be considered.
So no. No decision has been taken. And debate is encouraged and will not be ignored.
Agreed.
Lily Allen feet fans rejoice.
By the way, he's already logged back on (or tried to) since this post.
I've slept on it and you can get in the bin too.And to think folk say Nazi is yet another word the left have semantically bleached. This place just gets worse and worse as a far left hell hole. So much for just wanting to chat about football.
Why did you sleep on the bin?
Dire times innit.
Trying to make sure it doesn't blow away in the mad wind out there
He's making a list, he's checking it twice, he's gonna find out if you support the Reich
Following the ‘right’ option is why this ban is proposed in the first place.
Surprised 30% say no.
Weirdos.
Weirdos.
Can we start collecting a list of the journalists we care about, what tier they're in and if they're on X/Bluesky/both and then use that as a starting point?
If you look at the posts in the football forum, is it any surprise that at least 30per cent of posters are weirdos?
Fascism? Nah mate it doesn’t bother me, as long as I get my football tweets! Priorities.
Fascism? Nah mate it doesn’t bother me, as long as I get my football tweets! Priorities.
"at least the football's on"
They can alternate between this and taking the knee, that way everyone is happy.
"at least the football's on"
Having to interact with the general public every now and then I'm not surprised at all.
The fact this site has left leaning morals is probably half the reason I use it so much. It's overtaken all other forms of social media I used to use as it's not a cesspit of negativity and hate (if you avoid the football forums)
TBH I'm surprised the % of 'weirdo's' is only 30!
I'm glad the vote is closer, while I agree with the sentiments around Musk, I think it would be a real loss to the forum if we can't post tweets. 95% of all football traffic flows through X - particularly in relation to transfers.
Is there perhaps a Xenforo addon that can effectively embed them via a screenshot or something, to avoid driving traffic their way?
Is there perhaps a Xenforo addon that can effectively embed them via a screenshot or something, to avoid driving traffic their way?
How much of an inconvenience is it really? Surely not so much that supporting a fascist is worthwhile?
Obviously it's not a major inconvenience, but it would detract from the forum in my view. The transfer forum would suffer the most - I mean, there's an entire section of the forum at the top of each page called 'Transfer Tweets' so it's pretty integral.
I think we'll just end up with all the usual transfer threads being clogged up by people trying to explain where they've seen a particular story or whatever. A lot of the newspaper websites like the Telegraph are all behind paywalls now, but a tweet can often get over the critical points. I know it can be bypassed pretty easily, but still.
Most people will probably still go directly to twitter for transfer news, cutting out the Caf in the middle.
And of that 95% it's probably true to say that 95% of it is complete BS
Actually, I've regularly found the Caf a good way of seeing mostly decent tweets while cutting out a lot of the rubbish ones. It's often my go-to place for updates on a transfer or managerial sack watch situation (just as an example).
That's why I think it would be a mistake to ban it - I do understand the concern but I don't necessarily think that using X means you're a supporter of Musk. It's not quite that black and white.
I'll never not find it puzzling that grown ass men are so invested in transfer muppetry.
Totally unrelated, but 30.3% is very close to the amount of votes the Nazis got on the Reichstag.
I don't disagree with that, never used it personally because I have no interest in rumours or sack watches, I just find the embeds annoying!
They can be, sometimes they're a bit slow to load which is annoying.
I think what /r/reddevils done was the right way. screenshots only
I voted no - personally I've taken a step back from twitter due to the toxicity and elevation of views that do not align to my own. That said, I still see it as the best place to get football news / content from, so keeping the function is quite useful and unless there's a viable alternative (I've not looked into bluesky) then it becomes harder work for those sharing news information.
A lot of the embedded tweets actually allow me to see what's happening without having to do the scrolling myself, which is quite useful.
A lot of the embedded tweets actually allow me to see what's happening without having to do the scrolling myself, which is quite useful.
And if it's not them the last men standing will be those who share dozens of tweets every to convince us all that Musk is a fascist. From the website that he owns. Without a hint of irony.
But is it really too much to ask a poster to put in some work if he/she thinks it's worthy of a post and is going to put us all through the work of reading it?
Anything posted here is viewed by a large amount of people (depending on topic from a dozen to thousands?), it doesn't need to be effortless to do so.
The 30% who voted no are the exact same 30% who wanted Jassim.
I hope more people move over to Blue Sky.
I was building my following list up the last few days and some of the main people I follow barely post on there currently which is frustrating as I'd switch over immediately if it was more active.
I was building my following list up the last few days and some of the main people I follow barely post on there currently which is frustrating as I'd switch over immediately if it was more active.
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