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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 riledhel »

corin_ wrote: post #11

I hate #newtwitter more than anyone, but I disagree with the logic that just because people don't like it, it's neccesarily a bad move - lot's of people don't like change. I've seen it a couple of times on big community websites when people complained about a new design, and then a week later realised that just because it started off not feeling like the site they grew to love, it didn't mean it wasn't a huge improve…

Maybe if they allow third-party apps to interact with the service (ala Tweetdeck, etc) you could build a clone that mimics the old UI...

Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by flyosity »

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 believe it's due to the fixed positioning used throughout the layout. Even on my iMac and MacBook Air it chugs when scrolling through just a page or two of statuses. Super, super annoying.

Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by [deleted] »

dangrossman wrote: post #37
jcromartie wrote: post #34

I 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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Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by kordless »

dangrossman wrote: post #37
jcromartie wrote: post #34

I 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.

Wouldn't an overloaded API affect the mobile interface as well?

Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by dpcan »

dangrossman wrote: post #37
jcromartie wrote: post #34

I 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.

I have twitter's new UI open in a tab all day long. I click the "X new tweets" button abou 20 times a day. I read tweets, checkout other twitterer's feeds, and it never ever slows down for me.

When I read about this guy seeing over a minute page loads, all I could think was, something is wrong with your computer or network dude.

Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by dangrossman »

dpcan wrote: post #45
dangrossman wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have twitter's new UI open in a tab all day long. I click the "X new tweets" button abou 20 times a day. I read tweets, checkout other twitterer's feeds, and it never ever slows down for me. When I read about this guy seeing over a minute page loads, all I could think was, something is wrong with your computer or network dude.

Maybe your day does not line up with times Twitter has had capacity issues. Maybe it's maintenance during non-peak hours. I don't know, except that I've definitely seen Twitter's new UI time out as often as I saw the fail whale in the old UI.

Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by true_religion »

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…

Here's what I think isn't being said:

If you take risks, the risk isn't just that you'll piss people off... its that you'll create something that is worse or no better than what you already have.

Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by jackowayed »

corin_ wrote: post #11

I hate #newtwitter more than anyone, but I disagree with the logic that just because people don't like it, it's neccesarily a bad move - lot's of people don't like change. I've seen it a couple of times on big community websites when people complained about a new design, and then a week later realised that just because it started off not feeling like the site they grew to love, it didn't mean it wasn't a huge improve…

The best example being Facebook, which has a major campaign to bring back the old Facebook every time there's a serious redesign. And then there's another redesign and many of those same people beg Facebook to being back that version they had complained so much about.

Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by leviathant »

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 also like how it runs separately from the standard Twitter servers. I can be logged into one account on twitter.com and another on m.twitter.com, and I've found m.twitter.com to be generally more reliable than twitter.com.
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