<story><title>Threads Is Now Live</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-metas-twitter-competitor-is-now-live/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maskedinvader</author><text>My early impressions:&lt;p&gt;Interface is clean and easy to use&amp;#x2F;intuitive&lt;p&gt;Not seeing an ad or sponsored posts every 2nd or 3rd story is refreshing, wondering how long that lasts&lt;p&gt;No web app to boot ? Wtf disappointed no web ui yet but hoping that changes and changes soon&lt;p&gt;Also no other way to login apart from instagram ? That’s strange , was hoping for standalone login , hoping it’s eventually rolled out&lt;p&gt;No way to change username even after linking instagram username, this is imho a dumb move, I was late to the instagram party and missed out on shorter username and now was hoping joining threads early would help me get my desired username but alas&lt;p&gt;I noticed the highlighted replies feature where celebrity replies are expanded below some threads , it’s probably a good feature just feel they could have a way of turning it off, I’d rather click into a story to surface those and maximize stories per page and reduce scrolling&lt;p&gt;All in all seems like a decent twitter clone, and lots of features missing but definitely a good start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>&amp;gt; No way to change username even after linking instagram username, this is imho a dumb move, I was late to the instagram party and missed out on shorter username and now was hoping joining threads early would help me get my desired username but alas&lt;p&gt;There is a 1:1 mapping of Instagram &amp;lt;-&amp;gt; Threads user names, so even if they let you change it in the app you wouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to get a shorter one if someone has already claimed it on Instagram.</text></comment>
<story><title>Threads Is Now Live</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-metas-twitter-competitor-is-now-live/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maskedinvader</author><text>My early impressions:&lt;p&gt;Interface is clean and easy to use&amp;#x2F;intuitive&lt;p&gt;Not seeing an ad or sponsored posts every 2nd or 3rd story is refreshing, wondering how long that lasts&lt;p&gt;No web app to boot ? Wtf disappointed no web ui yet but hoping that changes and changes soon&lt;p&gt;Also no other way to login apart from instagram ? That’s strange , was hoping for standalone login , hoping it’s eventually rolled out&lt;p&gt;No way to change username even after linking instagram username, this is imho a dumb move, I was late to the instagram party and missed out on shorter username and now was hoping joining threads early would help me get my desired username but alas&lt;p&gt;I noticed the highlighted replies feature where celebrity replies are expanded below some threads , it’s probably a good feature just feel they could have a way of turning it off, I’d rather click into a story to surface those and maximize stories per page and reduce scrolling&lt;p&gt;All in all seems like a decent twitter clone, and lots of features missing but definitely a good start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bpye</author><text>Web UI seemingly sort of exists, you can share links for example &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.threads.net&amp;#x2F;@zuck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.threads.net&amp;#x2F;@zuck&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>