BUR #43951 is pending approval.
create alias x_(website) -> twitter
Given it IS the site's new official name a utility alias wouldn't be a bad idea.
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BUR #43951 is pending approval.
create alias x_(website) -> twitter
Given it IS the site's new official name a utility alias wouldn't be a bad idea.
I'm not convinced anyone actually uses this
Former thread discussion: forum #282711
zetsubousensei said:
I'm not convinced anyone actually uses this
Former thread discussion: forum #282711
That thread is about changing the mmain name in tags to X, which is a much bigger change than just a utility alias.
Though I want most Twitter tags renamed to X tags, I'm downvoting because this tag is really bad. It represents too many different concepts at once, meaning you can't search for or blacklist them individually; there are a ton of mistags. It's also only a copyright tag because the bird and fail whale existed. If it's aliased then it makes even less sense as a copyright tag as X has no characters. It only makes sense as a grouping for when X interface elements appear (posts and buttons).
I think twitter screenshot (and sometimes fake screenshot) should be used instead of this tag. Some might consider those mutually exclusive (i.e., that all twitter screenshots must seem real; typically screenshot insets), but that's how they're currently used.
LQ said:
Though I want most Twitter tags renamed to X, I'm downvoting because this tag is really bad. It represents too many different concepts at once, meaning you can't search for or blacklist them individually; there are a ton of mistags. It's also only a copyright tag because the bird and fail whale existed. If it's aliased then it makes even less sense as a copyright tag as X has no characters. It only makes sense as a grouping for when X interface elements appear (posts and buttons).
I think twitter screenshot (and sometimes fake screenshot) should be used instead of this tag. Some might consider those mutually exclusive (i.e., that all twitter screenshots must seem real; typically screenshot insets), but that's how they're currently used.
There are posts like post #9518696 that namedrop twitter but don't have a visual representation of it. No other tag would work for that then this one. Edit: Didn't notice the phone at first, my bad. I need to stop posting at midnight. My argument still stands though, you could have an image that just has someone talking about twitter and not using it.
ANON_TOKYO said:
That thread is about changing the mmain name in tags to X, which is a much bigger change than just a utility alias.
It is but it's related.
I don't like this even as a utility alias because I don't think people actually use it and it will mess with search order for our other X tags like x_(manga) or X_(mega Man).
wispydreamer said:
There are posts like post #9518696 that namedrop twitter but don't have a visual representation of it. No other tag would work for that then this one. Edit: Didn't notice the phone at first, my bad. I need to stop posting at midnight. My argument still stands though, you could have an image that just has someone talking about twitter and not using it.
(I also didn't notice the phone at first, either!)
I don't think a mention of Twitter in dialogue should be tagged, even in cases like this where it's "twitter users' pov". Like, sure, it's kind of about Twitter as a subculture or community, but barely. But tagging post #5858809 as Danbooru also kind of feels correct for the same reason, so maybe tagging Twitter is the right move.
In this case it might also be less reason to have the alias, because then similar posts where characters say "guess we made you mad, X" would be tagged twitter. Or what about characters that are mentioned (as the focus of dialogue) but don't appear? And of course twitter (topic) or twitter (phrase) seem kind of out of the question.
At this point I doubt twitter is ever going to go back to actually being called twitter, so it would make sense to finally stop automatically rewriting x.com source links as twitter.com and instead do the reverse. Since twitter.com is just going to perform a redirect to x.com anyway, but you never know if they're going to somehow break that in the future.
bawlzzz said:
At this point I doubt twitter is ever going to go back to actually being called twitter, so it would make sense to finally stop automatically rewriting x.com source links as twitter.com and instead do the reverse. Since twitter.com is just going to perform a redirect to x.com anyway, but you never know if they're going to somehow break that in the future.
I'm pretty sure they can't, like, ever. Assets are still stored at twimg.com, just like how discord still has assets at discordapp.com. It's one of those things where if they were to remove it, the site would probably break. and whether he wants to admit it or not you just can't beat the brand recognition of twitter. removing the redirect would be shooting the site in the foot even more than, well, everything else he's done to it.
I don't thing typing x_(website) is practical especially since I know another one-letter website called x.org (I know noone would probably use x.org in art, but potentially it's misleading). Maybe it's better to alias copy:x.com (or just x.com) to twitter instead? (though, that's bad for x-com series)