{"slug": "control-panel-for-twitter", "name": "Control Panel for Twitter", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 3, "warners": 0, "score": 2.779, "rising": 1.67, "first": "2026-01-07", "latest": "2026-10-16", "why": "For FF users I recommend https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/control-panel-for-twitter/", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 0, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "For FF users I recommend https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/control-panel-for-twitter/", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": "soitis.dev", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-twitter", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Control Panel for Twitter"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 801867216, "item_id": 50116701, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116701", "by": "flowingfocus", "date": "2026-10-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For FF users I recommend https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/control-panel-for-twitter/", "excerpt": "For FF users I recommend https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/control-panel-for-twitter/ > By default, your Home timeline will be the reverse-chronological \"Following\" timeline, which will only contain tweets and quote tweets from the people you follow. The algorithmic \"For you\" timeline will be hidden", "context": "Firefox user", "use_case": "chronological Twitter timeline", "switched_from": "", "story": "Neural networks are clean"}, {"id": 791023297, "item_id": 49438956, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438956", "by": "runjake", "date": "2026-08-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "uBlock or Control Panel for Twitter.", "excerpt": "You bring up a lot of good points, so just some general tips for other readers. > Political stuff notwithstanding Don't follow people who post about politics and use muting and mute words liberally. > consume a non-algorithmic feed New-ish: Following -> Latest. As an aside, the supposed algorithm is on GitHub[1]. > disable videos and photos in the feed uBlock or Control Panel for Twitter. 1. https://github.com/xai-or", "context": "", "use_case": "Hiding videos and photos in feed", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"}, {"id": 752307056, "item_id": 47019191, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019191", "by": "insin", "date": "2026-02-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Control Panel for Twitter [1] can hide most things you'd want to hide on Twitter.", "excerpt": "Not a blocklist, but for anyone who wants this, Control Panel for Twitter [1] can hide most things you'd want to hide on Twitter. The latest version adds a way to keep using the Dim dark mode variant theme they recently removed. [1] https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-twitter", "context": "", "use_case": "Hide X/Twitter clutter", "switched_from": "", "story": "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"}, {"id": 744411744, "item_id": 46525734, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525734", "by": "insin", "date": "2026-01-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Control Panel for Twitter [1] has a bunch of features which undo some of the X-era changes", "excerpt": "If that's more like what you're after, Control Panel for Twitter [1] has a bunch of features which undo some of the X-era changes (including continuing to use it via twitter.com, and using the old Messages interface instead of Chat) It obviously can't fix the damage done to the product as a whole, nor the result of the peverse incentives introduced by boosted Tweets and Premium payouts, but it can lessen some of the ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 744514000, "item_id": 46532125, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46532125", "by": "runjake", "date": "2026-01-07", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "breaks rendering on the current version of X", "excerpt": "Thanks for correcting me. I re-read his reply a few times and came to my same conclusion. Funny story, it turns out the \"Control Panel for Twitter\" browser extension I use breaks rendering on the current version of X and gave me the impression that Adam was replying directly. Sorry, Adam.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"}]}], "who": [{"by": "flowingfocus", "context": "Firefox user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116701", "date": "2026-10-16"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["chronological twitter timeline", "hiding videos and photos in feed", "hide x/twitter clutter", "customize twitter interface"], "compared": [], "makers": [{"id": 753074256, "item_id": 47067141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067141", "by": "insin", "date": "2026-02-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I added a \"Dark mode theme\" option to Control Panel for Twitter", "excerpt": "I added a \"Dark mode theme\" option to Control Panel for Twitter to bring it back: https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-twitter", "context": "", "use_case": "Customize Twitter UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "X's new pure black dark mode hurts readability compared to the old dim theme"}, {"id": 740997584, "item_id": 46312349, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46312349", "by": "insin", "date": "2025-12-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm selling browser extensions on the App Store", "excerpt": "I'm selling browser extensions on the App Store, but the main money-maker is currently https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-twitter When Twitter killed off third-party apps, the browser extension I'd been developing ever since \"New Twitter\" launched in 2019 suddenly became one of the few ways to make Twitter more tolerable to use, and the number of users of the Chrome version tripled from 30k to 90k in a fortnight (m", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 \u2013 Show and tell"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105647", "title": "Neural networks are clean", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283", "title": "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982997", "title": "X's new pure black dark mode hurts readability compared to the old dim theme", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016443", "title": "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553343", "title": "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950", "title": "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 801867216, "item_id": 50116701, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116701", "by": "flowingfocus", "date": "2026-10-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For FF users I recommend https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/control-panel-for-twitter/", "excerpt": "For FF users I recommend https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/control-panel-for-twitter/ > By default, your Home timeline will be the reverse-chronological \"Following\" timeline, which will only contain tweets and quote tweets from the people you follow. 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I re-read his reply a few times and came to my same conclusion. Funny story, it turns out the \"Control Panel for Twitter\" browser extension I use breaks rendering on the current version of X and gave me the impression that Adam was replying directly. 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