Mute.vc
Productivity
twitter muting tool
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
5 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Idea: 5 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea and funny hack
From 3 comments
Great idea. Would love to see some examples of the muted content.
krtbgb on HNi see a bunch of tweets from folks i don't follow through retweets and (more commonly now) favorites. this let's me switch that on and off. overall, this was a little hack that…
meagher on HNI hope this ushers in a new cultural moment!
abalashov on HN
Objections
Twitter's built-in tools or block lists already cover this
From 2 comments
Is there something this does that I can't do with Twitter OOTB? Seems like an odd problem to resolve. Maybe I don't use Twitter enough.
giancarlostoro on HNWhy not just use a block list[0]? [0] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/a/2015/sharing-block-lists-to-help-make-twitter-safer.html
css on HN
Requests broad Twitter permissions, including posting and following
From 2 comments
It would be nice if it mentioned how it works as well as who it will be affecting. Is it unfollowing these people, is it muting them, etc? Clicking "continue with twitter" asks…
geoah on HN>report accounts for you Wait, what kind of use-case is there for this?
kohtatsu on HN
Investor list includes people who should not be muted
From 1 comment
Seems odd to include Ryan Hoover and Niv Dror. Ryan Hoover is generally pretty innocuous and is also the founder of ProductHunt, something builders might want to hear about. And…
madamelic on HN
Requests
Mute politics accounts
From 1 comment
Feature request: Mute.politics please.
coolswan on HN
Show examples of muted content
From 2 comments
Showing some example of particularly egregious thought leadership and maybe an animation of it being silenced would go a long way towards helping. I blocked twitter.com in a…
g82918 on HNGreat idea. Would love to see some examples of the muted content.
krtbgb on HN
Mute promoted and recommended tweets
From 1 comment
What we need is something to eliminate "Recommended For You" mentions. After that, a Promoted Tweet muter would find wide appreciation (using uBO for that now).
WarOnPrivacy on HN
Questions
How does it work: unfollow, mute, or something else?
From 1 comment
It would be nice if it mentioned how it works as well as who it will be affecting. Is it unfollowing these people, is it muting them, etc? Clicking "continue with twitter" asks…
geoah on HN
Why mute investors at all?
From 2 comments
To be honest, I don't really understand this meme of investors on twitter being universally bad or something one would want to mute out. A well known investor on twitter actually…
davnicwil on HNDoes twitter force you to follow people you don't want to hear from? If I didn't want to hear from someone, wouldn't I not follow them in the first place? What is the use case…
omarhaneef on HN
Alternatives named
Twitter block lists
From 1 comment
Why not just use a block list[0]? [0] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/a/2015/sharing-block-lists-to-help-make-twitter-safer.html
css on HN
Browser ad blockers like uBlock Origin
From 1 comment
What we need is something to eliminate "Recommended For You" mentions. After that, a Promoted Tweet muter would find wide appreciation (using uBO for that now).
WarOnPrivacy on HN