[thrdbndndn]

How is one "proper" while the other is not? The blog URL is literally in the tweet, and it's NASA's official account.

Of course if you're doing citation for your paper the later one would be better but this is "just" posting on HN. I would even go so far as to say I prefer the tweet link so I can easily retweet, and no information is lost.

[verdverm]

It says as such in the site guidelines

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[koheripbal]

I prefer the blog link as it's more informative.

It's not usually useful to debate what's "proper". Debating utility is a better use of everyone's time, as you point out.

[shkkmo]

Except Twitter is actively hostile to non-logged-in users which makes the Twitter link much worse when there is an actual underlying source.

[crawl_soever]

Twitter also completely blocked its static HTML site a few years ago. They insist that we enable JS to view plain-text content that I can directly view on the blog without JS.

[belter]

True. I always use this: https://nitter.net/NASA/status/1564232429279272962

Now if you try to post a Nitter link on HN, it changes to the Twitter link. Why not sure.

[thrdbndndn]

I never have any problem viewing a single tweet on Twitter without logging in, sans ones that are marked "NSFW".

Can you please explain what you see that are "hostile"? I opened this tweet RN in a guest profile and it looks exactly the same as the one I saw when I logged in.

[shkkmo]

Huh, I've had Twitter repeatedly prompt me to log in, fail to load tweets and misbehave in all kinds of other ways.

However, even if Twitter didn't have a history of such problems, having to click an extra link is annoying to the majority of users, which is part of why the HN Guidelines say to always link to the original source:

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[belter]

Every time you try to see the link you get after a few seconds a window:

"See what’s happening

Join Twitter to get the full story with all the live commentary."

And you have two options SignUp, Login, or F#^&^#@&^ :-) Now if you don't see it, because you have script blockers, that is a recognition of the interface hostility.

[thrdbndndn]

I see that, but that doesn't affect me to see the tweet in anyway [1], does it?

[1] https://i.imgur.com/tfEwSgT.png

[belter]

I am not talking about the one at bottom, but the annoying popup...

"Twitter disables browsing without an account" - https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/p62que/twitt...

[sashahrzg]

Official would have been a better word. In my defense I had just woken up when I posted this.