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Introducing Twitter Lite

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Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by paradite »

afro88 wrote: post #25
warpech wrote: post #5

Built mostly with Facebook tech: React, React Native, Jest, Yarn

Isn't ReactNative for native mobile apps though? This is a web app

> The client-side JavaScript application is developed, built, and tested with many open source libraries including React, Redux, Normalizr, Globalize, Babel, Webpack, Jest, WebdriverIO, and Yarn.

from https://blog.twitter.com/2017/how-we-built-twitter-lite

OP probably assumed React Native was in the list.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by croon »

unwind wrote: post #20
croon wrote: post #12

This is going to sound negative, even though I'm glad this is here: How did we arrive at a time where it is news-worthy to launch a non-bloated service client? Or to phrase it differently: What is the claimed consumer gain of a bloated client? More like this please. It feels like going back in time when I first tried a 100Mbps connection in the late 90s and all the web content was made to accomodate DSL and modems.

I support your idea that software is often bloated. However, as usual you're doing the mistake of somehow thinking that you are a customer of Twitter's. Of course you're not, since you're not paying to use the service. That turns things around so that you're the usual ad target product, meaning the app might swell to contain more candy to tease you into clicking, and so on. Uh, and just to be clear I'm not meaning "y…

I understand, but I have two counter points:

* I disabled UO, and I can see no ads on twitter, other than the occasional promoted tweet.

* Ads can be served very discretely (as pointed out above), and doesn't have to "bloat" a client from a sub-1MB to a 20MB app. Ads also doesn't have to adversely affect (much) how fast something loads.

A third point would be how much gain ads actually drive, but that's another discussion.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by fwn »

sunilkumarc wrote: post #23
asgeirn wrote: post #17

Awesome. Hidden in the preferences is also the possibility to remove pictures completely!

Where exactly? I couldn't find it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/settings/

In the data saving settings sub category. The setting panel itself seems rather hidden.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by professorumbra »

It's great to have a less bloated site, but it still uses the same UI which is only viable for the most basic usage. The thing I want improved the most is list viewing and management. Right now the only good way to view lists is tweetdeck which only really works on desktop.
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