The mobile site took 15 seconds to load for me.
Blazingly fast, Twitter? In another reality, maybe
Twitters new and blazingly fast interface
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#32I 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?
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#33No keyboard shortcuts is a dealbreaker.
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#34I don't get the bitching about the new UI. What is he talking about when he says "pages that take several minutes to load"? Is he talking about the regular twitter.com UI? It loads in less than a second and is otherwise completely responsive.
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#35I dont even bother opening twitter on ipad anymore. Will try out this mobile interface.
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#36"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…
Slower+buggy is not an improvement. I can't count the number of times that the new interface has reported 'twitter is over capacity', 'you have already tweeted that' (when it wasn't true) and a whole pile of other errors, if it worked at all. Page load times of several minutes on a 10 Mbit connection on a very fast machine are ridiculous. Of course you have to 'take risks to innovate'. But rolling out buggy and slow…
Those two things sound like backend capacity issues, rather than frontend. The frontend as I understand it is almost all static HTML/JS. So they may be having capacity issues, but that would be true whether they stayed on the old twitter or moved to the new twitter.
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#37I don't get the bitching about the new UI. What is he talking about when he says "pages that take several minutes to load"? Is he talking about the regular twitter.com UI? It loads in less than a second and is otherwise completely responsive.
Except when the API is overloaded, which is often. Then Twitter.com just spins for a long while and gives a message about trying again while failing to load your tweets at all.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Slower+buggy is not an improvement. I can't count the number of times that the new interface has reported 'twitter is over capacity', 'you have already tweeted that' (when it wasn't true) and a whole pile of other errors, if it worked at all. Page load times of several minutes on a 10 Mbit connection on a very fast machine are ridiculous. Of course you have to 'take risks to innovate'. But rolling out buggy and slow…
Those two things sound like backend capacity issues, rather than frontend. The frontend as I understand it is almost all static HTML/JS. So they may be having capacity issues, but that would be true whether they stayed on the old twitter or moved to the new twitter.
I'm not sure what the cause is exactly, but back when they let you chose between new and old, I found that it was always slower and less reliable on the new version of the site. And it hasn't got any better since they killed off the old version.
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#39I either use Twitter on OS X or Tweetbot on the iPhone - I can't remember the last time I saw the twitter.com site at all...
I mostly use the same apps you do on a day-to-day basis -- but honestly you should try the site sometime. It's pretty sweet.
It's especially useful when you want to find new people to follow. You can poke around really easily, read conversations and see photos they've posted and who they follow, etc etc. It feels optimized for discovering new stuff.
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#40I either use Twitter on OS X or Tweetbot on the iPhone - I can't remember the last time I saw the twitter.com site at all...
I mostly use the same apps you do on a day-to-day basis -- but honestly you should try the site sometime. It's pretty sweet. It's especially useful when you want to find new people to follow. You can poke around really easily, read conversations and see photos they've posted and who they follow, etc etc. It feels optimized for discovering new stuff.
I'll give it a whirl - although, using the apps keeps me nicely shielded from "Promoted Tweets" and the Trending topics, neither of which I have any interest in.