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Twitter has some dual personality when it comes to UX. Recently, Twitter quietly started relying on the HTTP Referrer field. That's OK, I guess, except they d
by xjay 11y ago
Twitter has some dual personality when it comes to UX.
Recently, Twitter quietly started relying on the HTTP Referrer field. That's OK, I guess, except they did nothing to inform their users about it, which is easy for them to check and report on specifically. Instead, they let their users get confused by generic messages when attempting to post, or change settings, trying all sorts of things. If you want to require HTTP referrer, you should know what that means, and why many may have it disabled.
It's also interesting to see the social media sites and the web converging on using the same types of icons. All because of the mobile platform and a certain apple OS, with the cog wheel and menu symbol.
Heart versus star: I think the heart miscommunicates the function. I can't identify with it anymore, as I don't tend to "heart things".
Also, they didn't just change the icon, they changed the color as well. The star was a weak yellow. The heart is a darker, burning red, and therefore sticks out more in contrast with the white.
- adsche 11y ago> Recently, Twitter quietly started relying on the HTTP Referrer field. Yes! It took me weeks to figure that one out. In three years without Referer that was only my second non-obvious error caused by that. And then they started with the polls. You can create polls from twitter web, but you cannot answer one. You just see a tweet from somebody asking a question. Nothing else, no way to even see that it is a poll. Same in tweetdeck (which is also by twitter). Confusing strategy, at least for me.
- _jomo 11y ago> You can create polls from twitter web, but you cannot answer one. AFAIK this is only a bug with FirefoxDev & IndexedDB. It should work in other browsers or in private mode, where IndexedDB is disabled.