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Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by drivebyacct2 » Sat, Sep 10, 2011, 5:12 AM UTC

flyosity wrote: post #42

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.

Safari?

Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by tripzilch » Sat, Sep 10, 2011, 11:14 AM UTC

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.

Netbook user, same here.

I also agree about the never-ending scrolling, it's horrible. I usually think "oh I'll just finish reading this page and then I'll stop" and then without noticing it loads another page ... and another ... and then it turns really slow and urrgh.

Definitely going to try the mobile version next time :)

Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by tripzilch » Sat, Sep 10, 2011, 11:18 AM UTC

iamjustlooking wrote: post #5

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

It'd be really nice, if the UI wasn't so slow due to all sorts of javascript and CSS bloat. Scrolling is really jerky too.

Thing is, if you got a new/fast computer, you don't notice this, and then yeah, the new interface is just fine.

Except that, for the functionality it provides, there's not really a good excuse for the page to be so slow.

Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by mailarchis » Sat, Sep 10, 2011, 8:10 PM UTC

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…

"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 improvement." - Very true. Can some one recall the users reaction when FB launched newsfeed

Re: Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

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Post by thenduks » Sun, Sep 11, 2011, 2:25 PM UTC

wgx wrote: post #40

thenduks wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Agreed, but I don't find that stuff especially in-my-face on the site -- although I have adblock installed, not really sure what effect it has on the site. I generally visit twitter.com once or twice a week just to poke around and see what I can find and then go back to the native apps.