The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter
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The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter
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#2This drives me insane. Does nobody develop software for actual humans anymore?
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#3Bit off topic, but I managed to use old reddit on windows 98 not that long ago
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#4"Not horribly confusing and overwhelming for people that don’t use it regularly like Reddit, be it the old or the bad design."
My first thought was that the unrepentant bizarreness of Twitter's layout was going to be the "wall" in this case. But the idea that Reddit - a mild variation on the timeless forum format - is somehow more confusing than Twitter? No.
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#5The sub-rant about every app having its own browser really rang true for me. I never gave it much thought until now, but wow, what a horrible experience. Frequently I click a link to a private GitHub repo (404!) or a news article (paywall!) inside an app and then have to clunkily "Open in Safari" to actually apply my session cookie.
To non-developers this must be even more confusing ("why am I only logged in some of the time?") Terrible UX.
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#6It's funny because I don't even see "Related Tweets" anymore. It's just "More Tweets" immediately underneath a tweet and its threads. They're not even bothering to find tweets that related to what you're reading. They've gone to the Buzzfeed or Daily Mail strategy of finding the most engaging things and putting them in your periphery to ensure you stay on the site.
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#7This drives me insane. Does nobody develop software for actual humans anymore?
No, the goal is metrics leading to bonuses and promotions. UX has been User Exploitation for a decade now.
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#8The rampant tracking is a ticking time bomb.
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#9This drives me insane. Does nobody develop software for actual humans anymore?
Of course.
But they just don't prioritise the interests of developers and technical people who are often the ones writing these blog posts.
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#10The sub-rant about every app having its own browser really rang true for me. I never gave it much thought until now, but wow, what a horrible experience. Frequently I click a link to a private GitHub repo (404!) or a news article (paywall!) inside an app and then have to clunkily "Open in Safari" to actually apply my session cookie. To non-developers this must be even more confusing ("why am I only logged in some of…
But it lets the app developers track engagement! How will the poor app developers know exactly which sites you choose to browse to otherwise?
(/s, since that’s not obvious on the internet anymore)