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Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by castewart »

ColinWright wrote: post #2

It's not that new - I've been using this ever since twitter said they would close down the old interface and force the new one upon me. It's fast, nearly complete, and convenient. It also doesn't have the incredibly annoying "endless page" scroll. Much to be preferred.

I've been using m.twitter.com for awhile since I have dialup here in the mountain house. New twitter wouldn't even load beforehand :(

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Post by kokey »

kingsidharth wrote: post #6

>> "if people stick to your old interface rather than to migrate to the new and shiny one then they probably have their reason" Sounds like one of those "Get 1 Million and facebook will revert back XYZ" Groups. Everyone has one. It's a good thing they are experimenting.

I was going to say this Twitter interface rant reminds me of all the people complaining every time Facebook changes their layout. I suspect Facebook now makes changes in smaller increments, since these complaints have gone down.

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Post by soult »

brown9-2 wrote: post #20
Wilya wrote: post #18

I really am curious as to why the new interface works so absurdly badly. It's not even a question of being a bit slow, the thing uses constantly 90% of my cpu (I'm using a low end netbook), which makes it technically unusable, and it's not like it does that much work. Hell, it just print a timeline. The only thing missing from the mobile interface is a basic auto-refresh function.

90% of your CPU? I am the only one who has never seen problems like this with it?

I have the same problem. Sure, my computer is five years and my browser three years old, but still, no website should be so unusable that you can't use it on older hardware.

Especially if you consider what Twitter is. It is not a 1080p streaming site like Youtube (which works fine btw), it is not some complicated Office suite like Google Docs (which works fine btw), it is just a site that displays short messages on my computer screen. I don't see a reason why Twitter even needs Javascript at all.

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Post by john2x »

Wilya wrote: post #18

I really am curious as to why the new interface works so absurdly badly. It's not even a question of being a bit slow, the thing uses constantly 90% of my cpu (I'm using a low end netbook), which makes it technically unusable, and it's not like it does that much work. Hell, it just print a timeline. The only thing missing from the mobile interface is a basic auto-refresh function.

I also have a netbook and agree that #NewTwitter is unusable in it.

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Post by n3m6 »

jnorthrop wrote: post #15

"Hint: if people stick to your old interface rather than to migrate to the new and shiny one then they probably have their reasons. Forcing them is not going to make them happy." This leads to a dangerous line of thinking. There will always be a group of users who are resistant to change, and during a time of change they will be most vocal. If you listen to them you'll stagnate -- which is almost always the kiss-of-d…

Totally agreed. One of my previous managers told me about that time they had to force GSM over CDMA. While the handsets were not all that different, the people with the old CDMA plans just outright refused to change over for months. In this particular case, the end-user would experience absolutely no difference in service capacity, yet they rigidly maintained the position. They just pulled the plug in the end. He suggested to me that in service switch-overs, always expect at least 3% of the population to hang on however ridiculous that particular position was.

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Post by _delirium »

iamjustlooking wrote: post #5

Sometimes I feel like the only one who likes new twitter.

I don't actually dislike it overall in concept, but it feels very buggy to me in implementation. Sometimes it will just stop working entirely until I reload: clicking on a tweet to have a detail view slide out in the right panel will work for a while, then at some point I click a few times on a tweet and nothing happens. Not sure if some script is hanging or it's due to timeouts or what, but I notice this throughout the interface, which makes it feel very unpredictable.

I would like middle-click-to-open-in-new-tab to work more consistently as well.

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