In-reply-to » So, uh, did anyone but me notice that the last character of a twt hash is always either an a or a q? Which is the natural consequence of taking the last digit in the base32 representation of a 256-bit hash -- 256 is not evenly divisible by 5 ! That final character is made up of one bit of actual information and 4 bits of padding.

I finally figured out that https://search.twtxt.net is not the same as https://twtxt.net/search. The former is open to the general public, unlike the latter which is only for registered users of twtxt.net. Meaning that I finally have some kind of access to an archive of the aforementioned debate.

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