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Introducing Twitter Lite

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Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by mschuster91 »

snackai wrote: post #18

Well they can release something good after all. Look at the main Web UI. I don't know what they are thinking at Twitter. Its the most unintuitive UX I've ever seen. E.g. : Click on the Image -> Only the Image gets larger Click on the frame around the image -> See the comments and Image is larger.

Yeah and only one of the options allows you to do a right-click and "save image as".

Quite frustrating because I take photos mainly with the Twitter app and later at home download them and repost them on Facebook... oh and you have to take care WHERE exactly you right-click because sometimes it will give you a compressed version and not the ".jpg-large" version you want... and then you have to rename the image so that other sites accept it for upload.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by _delirium »

sgk284 wrote: post #27
anc84 wrote: post #11

> Starting today, Twitter Lite is available globally by visiting mobile.twitter.com on your smartphone or tablet. I would also like to use it on my desktop!

It works fine on desktop. Just go to http://mobile.twitter.com

It's impressive how much faster it is on even a recent laptop on broadband (admittedly I'm "only" on DSL broadband, not fiber). You now click on a username, for example, and you get their page almost instantly. While on normal Twitter, there's a noticeable half-second or so lag for the transition to load and render.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by daliwali »

bharani_m wrote: post #35
warpech wrote: post #5

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

Doesn't seem to use any kind of server-side rendering.

This comment is getting downvoted but if it's true, it's absolutely a good point. They are optimizing for what is inherently slower: loading JS in the client before anything can be seen or interacted with, rather than rendering HTML and forms so one doesn't have to wait for JS to compile and execute (and all the tracking bloat that comes with it).

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by PuffinBlue »

This is really nice, even on desktop. And fast. Love it.

Looking at them side by side you really get a sense of how much 'stuff' Twitter Heavy has compared to Twitter Lite.

It would be so good if they could apply a bit of this stripped down approach to the main site and really work on list/follow management features.

I'd really love to get more out of Twitter as there are a lot of great people on there but (unless I'm missing something obvious) there doesn't really seems to be many tools built in to help you do that.

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