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Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

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Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

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Post by ceejayoz »

userbinator wrote: post #2

This is what user stylesheets were intended to solve. Too bad the majority browsers have gone down the path of attempting to remove all customisation.

I don't blame the browsers, really.

Look at the source code of Twitter or Facebook. It's intentionally obfuscated and mangled, probably in part to fuck with ad blockers.

I have a few user stylesheets (even a little custom Firefox extension to block one user's comments on a site I frequent), but the sites I'd really like to use them on largely don't make it possible to do so.

Look at a Facebook ad in your browser's web inspector, for example. The "Sponsored" tag is made up of 31 different randomly named span tags. https://imgur.com/a/AHZL8ko

Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

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Post by micromacrofoot »

userbinator wrote: post #2

This is what user stylesheets were intended to solve. Too bad the majority browsers have gone down the path of attempting to remove all customisation.

Even with user stylesheets targeting elements reliably on social networks is a nightmare. We're approaching a future where the markup isn't even human readable.

Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

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Post by adoxyz »

ceejayoz wrote: post #19
nkingsy wrote: post #13

The text of this article is 50% a repeat of the embedded tweets. It’s like high schoolers gaming word counts have taken over publishing.

"A few random Twitter users wrote some stuff" is one of my least favorite forms of modern journalism.

Yup. This is a non-story. People always complain when popular apps get UI updates.

Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

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Post by dellcybpwr »

moolcool wrote: post #14
franhield wrote: post #6

The new Twitter font looks so weird, and at the same time, it looks quite strong on the eyes. They should revert it to the classic one and bring back the fleets.

> bring back the fleets Did anyone use fleets?

When it was announced fleets were going away... had to look up because had no idea what a twitter fleet

Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

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Post by xwdv »

nkingsy wrote: post #13

The text of this article is 50% a repeat of the embedded tweets. It’s like high schoolers gaming word counts have taken over publishing.

Many of these articles could be generated automatically with a script using GPT-3. Simply supply a collection of tweets as a parameter.

Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

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Post by mbrubeck »

adamrezich wrote: post #7

is it actually objective qualities of the font that are giving people headaches, or is it just because it looks different from what the user expects, and twitter users are used to looking at twitter many times a day, so it throws their brain for a loop?

It seems to have broken hinting on some platforms. Not all users are seeing the same rendering. Here’s what the broken rendering looks like for some: https://twitter.com/_Soilleir_/status/1425542928970170376

Differently broken hinting on some versions of Android: https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1425545266757779463

Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

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Post by dtjb »

nkingsy wrote: post #13

The text of this article is 50% a repeat of the embedded tweets. It’s like high schoolers gaming word counts have taken over publishing.

I can't stand this "twitter hates x" trend where articles use a handful of embedded tweets to make their case, but then you look at the engagement on those tweets and they have like 2 likes. Good job, you found a couple of random people on twitter talking to themselves. You can do that for any opinion under the sun.

Maybe people really do hate the font, but use some real numbers to make your case, not this anecdotal vox pop fluff.

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