Introducing Twitter Lite • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by PKop » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 3:26 PM UTC

qznc wrote: post #108

professorumbra wrote: post #37

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.

This Twitter lite seems to ignore lists completely. I like it, but lists are a killer feature for me.

If you click on your profile avatar image you can access your lists.

From that point, you can use the url for a specific list as your entry into "Twitter". So in some ways, the use of lists is better than the mobile app, because they are URL accessible.

On mobile, if you "save to home" screen, then that icon becomes a one click way to get to a list.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by tedmiston » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 3:27 PM UTC

PuffinBlue wrote: post #47

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'…

A lot of those tools are in TweetDeck. Not sure why Twitter didn't integrate it more post-acquisition.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by lucasmullens » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 3:32 PM UTC

lauriswtf wrote: post #6

Why isn't this the default interface? It's so much more pleasant and faster than their main web UI.

I would guess because it's new and probably doesn't have 100% feature parity yet

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by ahoy » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #114

Correct me if I am wrong - but this thing being branded as "Twitter Lite" and marketed on lite.twitter.com is actually just the mobile web app, available at mobile.twitter.com ... right?

Seems to be the case. I use the mobile twitter web app because it crashes less than the native app on my older phone. It does seem noticeably faster now.

This seems like a weird branding/marketing push for what is essentially "we did a performance pass on our mobile website"

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by digi_owl » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 3:34 PM UTC

Funny how now both Facebook and Twitter has "lite" versions.

Maybe a lightbulb should brighten somewhere and ux people would realize that lite in contrasts is not the same as lite in memory and CPU?!

(fat chance, they are too hung up about their "art")

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by miles_matthias » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 3:37 PM UTC

How does this help their profitability? Expanding to developing regions when they can't make a profit in the US seems like a waste of time.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by jdormit » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 3:42 PM UTC

ahoy wrote: post #124

whalesalad wrote: post #114

Correct me if I am wrong - but this thing being branded as "Twitter Lite" and marketed on lite.twitter.com is actually just the mobile web app, available at mobile.twitter.com ... right?

Seems to be the case. I use the mobile twitter web app because it crashes less than the native app on my older phone. It does seem noticeably faster now. This seems like a weird branding/marketing push for what is essentially "we did a performance pass on our mobile website"

Was mobile.twitter.com a PWA before? That's what I thought the big change was - using service workers to offer offline/slow connection functionality.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by obstinate » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 3:47 PM UTC

miles_matthias wrote: post #126

How does this help their profitability? Expanding to developing regions when they can't make a profit in the US seems like a waste of time.

I'm sure that they have a lot of people trying to work toward profitability. But it's a big company. Lots of engineers. They still have a frontend team, and those folks gotta work on something.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by wriq » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 3:49 PM UTC

miles_matthias wrote: post #126

How does this help their profitability? Expanding to developing regions when they can't make a profit in the US seems like a waste of time.

By making that platform more accessible to millions of potential users. Their main source of revenue are Ad's so anything to increase a user count would seem like a good direction to go in.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by bcohen5055 » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 4:02 PM UTC

miles_matthias wrote: post #126

How does this help their profitability? Expanding to developing regions when they can't make a profit in the US seems like a waste of time.

Investors are always focused on the rate of new subscriptions, if they can't be profitable they can at least say they are growing subscriptions in new markets and possibly save the share price