Show HN: Revert the Twitter UI changes • Hacker News Board

Karunamon wrote: post #8

_jplc wrote: post #6

But why. Why that hate for every new UI nowadays .

Perhaps if the new UI's actually improved presentation of information rather than being an exercise in aesthetic wankery that makes the site less usable?

I can see some improvements on font and icon rendering, though.

Re: Show HN: Revert the Twitter UI changes

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Post by Spivak » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 3:03 PM UTC

badthingfactory wrote: post #9

_jplc wrote: post #6

But why. Why that hate for every new UI nowadays .

Resistance to change has no boundaries.

And the desire to needlessly overdesign UIs has a similar bound. All change is good change, right?

Re: Show HN: Revert the Twitter UI changes

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Post by badthingfactory » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 3:12 PM UTC

Spivak wrote: post #14

badthingfactory wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Resistance to change has no boundaries.

And the desire to needlessly overdesign UIs has a similar bound. All change is good change, right?

Nope, I happen to think the round images are a bad change.

Re: Show HN: Revert the Twitter UI changes

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Post by satsuma » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 3:16 PM UTC

Meh, Twitter's new UI isn't bad enough for me to worry about reverting it locally. If they pulled a YouTube that'd make sense, and even there I got used to it.

Re: Show HN: Revert the Twitter UI changes

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Post by _jplc » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 3:20 PM UTC

egwynn wrote: post #12

obligatory https://xkcd.com/1770/

Why isn't this higher.

Re: Show HN: Revert the Twitter UI changes

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Post by jamescostian » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 3:20 PM UTC

_Microft wrote: post #4

Is that actually advisable? The same attitude made people stick with Windows XP or Firefox 3.5, don't you think?

While I'm not a fan of the project, I do think that comparison isn't fair. XP and outdated browsers give you a much higher chance of malware, because MS isn't really putting out XP security patches and browsers release security patches in newer versions, hoping everyone will upgrade to them.

Meanwhile, this project is essentially 16 lines of JS. Even the README takes up more space. Reading through the lines of JS, I don't see how they will make you vulnerable at all.

Re: Show HN: Revert the Twitter UI changes

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Post by Slackwise » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 3:25 PM UTC

Skip Twitter.com and start using https://tweetdeck.twitter.com instead.

Re: Show HN: Revert the Twitter UI changes

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Post by ungzd » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 3:25 PM UTC

_jplc wrote: post #6

But why. Why that hate for every new UI nowadays .

New Twitter UI is not as bad as their other new features (algorithmic rearranging of timeline, likes sometimes shown as retweets, autoplay video of sports broadcasts) but still looks like trolling by designers. It's too retro, too much Raygun Gothic aesthetic. It does not fit to rough and casual nature of Twitter.