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Amazing, if I click a tweet, and go back, I don't lose my place. Wondering why desktop twitter had this problem (until they made that pop-up UX).

adrenalinelol 11y ago
They clearly need to hire more engineers. /s
emp_ 11y ago
This is a massive issue with the stateless aspect of HTTP, since the history API doesn't refresh the page and the state and components don't update (since its a React app) there's no magic needed to keep scroll position, but the router could be doing something I'm not aware. I've been looking for that solution for years and the first time I've seen it simply and clearly done is the Real World example in the Redux source.
- danabramov 11y ago
  >I've been looking for that solution for years and the first time I've seen it simply and clearly done is the Real World example in the Redux source. This is very heartwarming. Thank you for the feedback!
draw_down 11y ago
Hmm? Desktop Twitter is pretty good at that too in my experience
KB1JWQ 11y ago
I find myself consistently wondering why I pay money for a third party client five years into my use of Twitter (I was late to the party). What's more is that Twitter knows what I follow, what I read, what I like, and what I retweet. So why is it still suggesting I follow pop celebrities instead of well known developers? It seems that despite everything they know about me, they don't know me at all.
- rewrew 11y ago
  Moments is a prime example of how out of touch Twitter is. I've clicked on it three times to see, and each time the stories are celebrities or sports. They know enough about who I follow, what I tweet about and the hashtags that come up to target enterprise technology ads to me, why can't they use the same data to customize that page? It's utterly useless in its current form.
  - justinsaccount 11y ago
    Before Moments there used to be a tab that showed you tweets that your followers were replying to. I used to use that all the time to find new people to follow.
    - will_hughes 11y ago
      Way back in the beginning, when you followed someone you got all their tweets - including replies to people you don't follow. Then they made it an option to not get these, then they took away that option and made it mandatory. This, plus their really terrible behavior towards developers (still going on, as evidenced by their continuance of the 100K tokens limit per app) has seen me basicly stop using the service entirely.
  - kristianc 11y ago
    Useless to you, but you're probably not in the target demographic for the feature. Moments is about lowering the bar to new users of Twitter (the discovery problem) and get existing users more engaged in sharing content so Twitter is more valuable to them. For those users, celebrities and sports is exactly what's going to draw them in. Twitter can then sell ads against those users. I'd be surprised if it had any kind of algorithmic targeting any time soon, or if enterprise tech firms were looking to get involved in producing native Moments content in any serious numbers.
  - cshenton 11y ago
    Especially when compared to Facebook's news sidebar. When it came out I remember it was similar to moments, lots of celeb and sports news. Now it knows only to show me politics and gaming news.
coredog64 11y ago
I've very nearly rage quit Twitter over that bug. The WP 8.1 client doesn't have that problem.
Gaelan 11y ago
Mobile web Twitter is awful at this for me. I don't have a Twitter account; I'm not sure if the UI is as bad when logged in.
- zem 11y ago
  I have an account, and it is. it means I pretty much only use twitter on a desktop.

adrenalinelol 11y ago

They clearly need to hire more engineers. /s

emp_ 11y ago

This is a massive issue with the stateless aspect of HTTP, since the history API doesn't refresh the page and the state and components don't update (since its a React app) there's no magic needed to keep scroll position, but the router could be doing something I'm not aware. I've been looking for that solution for years and the first time I've seen it simply and clearly done is the Real World example in the Redux source.

danabramov 11y ago
>I've been looking for that solution for years and the first time I've seen it simply and clearly done is the Real World example in the Redux source. This is very heartwarming. Thank you for the feedback!

draw_down 11y ago

Hmm? Desktop Twitter is pretty good at that too in my experience

KB1JWQ 11y ago

I find myself consistently wondering why I pay money for a third party client five years into my use of Twitter (I was late to the party). What's more is that Twitter knows what I follow, what I read, what I like, and what I retweet. So why is it still suggesting I follow pop celebrities instead of well known developers? It seems that despite everything they know about me, they don't know me at all.

rewrew 11y ago
Moments is a prime example of how out of touch Twitter is. I've clicked on it three times to see, and each time the stories are celebrities or sports. They know enough about who I follow, what I tweet about and the hashtags that come up to target enterprise technology ads to me, why can't they use the same data to customize that page? It's utterly useless in its current form.
- justinsaccount 11y ago
  Before Moments there used to be a tab that showed you tweets that your followers were replying to. I used to use that all the time to find new people to follow.
  - will_hughes 11y ago
    Way back in the beginning, when you followed someone you got all their tweets - including replies to people you don't follow. Then they made it an option to not get these, then they took away that option and made it mandatory. This, plus their really terrible behavior towards developers (still going on, as evidenced by their continuance of the 100K tokens limit per app) has seen me basicly stop using the service entirely.
- kristianc 11y ago
  Useless to you, but you're probably not in the target demographic for the feature. Moments is about lowering the bar to new users of Twitter (the discovery problem) and get existing users more engaged in sharing content so Twitter is more valuable to them. For those users, celebrities and sports is exactly what's going to draw them in. Twitter can then sell ads against those users. I'd be surprised if it had any kind of algorithmic targeting any time soon, or if enterprise tech firms were looking to get involved in producing native Moments content in any serious numbers.
- cshenton 11y ago
  Especially when compared to Facebook's news sidebar. When it came out I remember it was similar to moments, lots of celeb and sports news. Now it knows only to show me politics and gaming news.

coredog64 11y ago

I've very nearly rage quit Twitter over that bug. The WP 8.1 client doesn't have that problem.

Gaelan 11y ago

Mobile web Twitter is awful at this for me. I don't have a Twitter account; I'm not sure if the UI is as bad when logged in.

zem 11y ago
I have an account, and it is. it means I pretty much only use twitter on a desktop.