> Nitter: the unwanted child

Nitter is a Twitter alternative that I've been hosting for quite some time. If I recall correctly it's maybe part of the first things I started hosting.

It's also one of the most horrible nightmares to maintain, thanks to all the AI Scrappers that kept ratelimiting the instance.

Despite that, it's been by far the most popular service I've hosted, maybe because of the nsfw, but who knows really.

> Housekeeping

So with this being the case, I decided that I'll try and make it better, since I felt the project had been dead for quite some time ->.

For starters, I've never written nor read nim code before this, but I hope I get more familiarity with the language to maybe start adding some features and not just add some old PRs.

Thanks to the kind folks at github I've got some great PRs to add to the existing codebase, although some had merging issues (due to their age), It wasn't that hard to get most of them working.

PRs added to nt.kuuro.net (Source: kuu7o/nitter)

  • #820 Include quoted tweet body in RSS
  • #907 Don't try to render unavailable tweets in RSS feeds
  • #1284 Add button to view quote tweets
  • #1266 Update font variables to use system font stack
  • #899 add support for long threads to infinite scrolling

Also a whole lot of styling changes. (if you have strong opinions about styling feel free to contact me)

> Wrap up

Update: just when I started with this idea, zedeus (creator of nitter) started pushing commits again to the project, so maybe it's not too dead, wanted to clear that out if there was some misunderstanding.

Note that I'll keep merging changes from upstream so the instance stays up to date, so for now we'll have just some quality of life improvements, I hope you enjoy them!