On another note, @th3j35t3r, if you really want this place to be the best alternative for Twitter and entice users to leave there, you should figure out how to add a feature that's equivalent to the quote-tweet. It would def improve the UX, and you might find tweeters, ahem, flocking here.
@th3j35t3r I'm curious what others might think of that idea?
@corlin @th3j35t3r If I want to pass along a link to an article from the NYT 's account, and make a comment about it, that starts the conversation. I'm not engaging in a conversation behind the NYT's back.
@corlin Then I have to copy the link and paste it into a post. That's a complete pain! Why can't i just quote it?
@corlin I mean, seriously, the clicking and pasting required on this site to pass along links is ridiculous.
I am now muting the rest of this conversation.
Out of small pain comes growth.
Out of avoidance of small pain comes ignorance.
@ml8_ml8
Ok understood.
But just make a new post.
Put the link in as a normal link.
Or reply to someone that did the above.
It is all threaded here. and folks can read the whole conversation.