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Maybe Twitters "UI" is so messy is because its text. People can make up any convent they want. Like signing posts with ^.
by ape4 11y ago
Maybe Twitters "UI" is so messy is because its text. People can make up any convent they want. Like signing posts with ^.
- lingben 11y agocompare and contrast to reddit: text but extremely simple, intuitive, you can follow conversations, know who is talking to whom, respond, link, etc.
- ilek 11y agoI think reddit gets kind ofh ard to follow for conversations. It's really good for content aggregation, but I much prefer 4chan (and any other chan etc) for conversations. Though I think in the end thats more to do with the functionality than the UI. You definitely need an extension to use 4chan seriously but the same can be said for reddit. I've said all this but either is INIFNITELY better than twitter, especially twitter's standard web client. TweetDeck makes the thing barely useable.
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- morgante 11y agoI get what you're saying but I don't think we should hold up Reddit as a gold standard of accessibility. I'm fairly technically proficient and I have a hard time figuring out how to "onboard" myself to Reddit and to understand the whole system. It's relatively intimidating. If we want to stick to text-only, I think HN is actually a better example. Of course, Facebook is really the pinnacle of broad accessibility.
- digi_owl 11y agoOne thing i like about Reddit is that you can temporarily collapse a noisy thread so you don't have to scroll past it.
- ant6n 11y agoI was just thinking of commenting about the lack of collapsing threads on HN as well. Nice to see I'm not the only one who's missing it here. (Especially if the most upvoted comment is not interesting to me, but resulted in a lot of conversation)
- digi_owl 11y agoNah, its messy because cloudcookoolander ui designers. Notice how if you click a tweet in the timeline, you do not get a overlay to show the conversation. Nope, it push away the tweets below to make room. Then when you click anywhere else on the site the conversation collapse back, shifting the position of surrounding tweets once more. Similarly, the only way to see a image full size is to basically drag and drop it into a new tab. If you click it you just get a floating view that barely make use of 75% of the screen, with a copy of the related tweet below it. To make use of the twitter site i find myself liberally middle and ctrl clicking timestamps and similar to throw tweets into new tabs. And their latest "innovation", embedded tweets, basically wrecks their own conversation view. Now you can't click a tweet and see the reverse timeline. Nope, you have to click each of them in turn to dig into the dialog.