Introducing Twitter Lite • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by discreditable » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 11:40 AM UTC

sleepychu wrote: post #45

Broken on FF android, http://i.imgur.com/p3jWX87.png

I got that for a while but it seems okay now.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by steinuil » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 11:48 AM UTC

I've been using mobile.twitter.com on my desktop browser for a while in place of the main website, and I find it much better and more pleasant to use.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by bclemens » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 11:48 AM UTC

jtruk wrote: post #46

Twitter Lite appears to omit Promoted Tweets (for me, for now), which is a bonus for experience.

I imagine that won't last long :^(

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by underwater » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 11:51 AM UTC

daliwali wrote: post #44

bharani_m wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

It's a progressive web app. This means users shouldn't have to wait for JS download or compilation on repeat visits.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by bharani_m » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 11:57 AM UTC

daliwali wrote: post #44

bharani_m wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I don't know why my comment is getting downvoted. I was just making an observation after looking at the source.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by vallavaraiyan » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 12:07 PM UTC

Looks great. And such beautiful URL structure. Will be my goto example to illustrate how to represent resources in the web.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by dudul » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 12:12 PM UTC

jtruk wrote: post #46

Twitter Lite appears to omit Promoted Tweets (for me, for now), which is a bonus for experience.

Incorrect. I just saw one :(

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by Ruud-v-A » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 12:24 PM UTC

janvdberg wrote: post #16

I love this. I was always frustrated by the ever-growing-in-size Twitter app. Which is around 105 Megabytes now (aka ~73 1.44 floppies). So I welcome this.

> Today, we are rolling out Twitter Lite, a new mobile web experience which minimizes data usage, loads quickly on slower connections, is resilient on unreliable mobile networks, and takes up less than 1MB on your device.

1 MB is “acceptable” by today’s standards, but when you think about it — 1 MB to display a few 140-character tweets?

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by provost » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 12:28 PM UTC

joelrunyon wrote: post #4

Isn't this basically twitter original? Anyone else remember when it was just text messaging basically?

History repeats itself. Seems like Twitter's history has repeated itself very quickly.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by Quanttek » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 12:28 PM UTC

I get an error loading https://mobile.twitter.com in FIrefox (desktop): TypeError: Referrer URL https://lite.twitter.com/ cannot be cross-origin to the entry settings object (https://mobile.twitter.com) (Console output)