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This may be an intentional dark pattern / effort to drive users away from the web client and to the official app. Facebook and reddit do the same thing. More pe
by Liquix 8y ago
This may be an intentional dark pattern / effort to drive users away from the web client and to the official app. Facebook and reddit do the same thing. More permissions = more juicy data to harvest.
- vorpalhex 8y agoNever assume malice where stupidity will do. I've been in an enterprise-y work environment. It's amazing the crap that gets churned out by massive teams for simple tasks.
- prolikewh0a 8y agoI assume malice. I work corporate for a Fortune 200 and if anything was broken as badly as Twitter's mobile website, it would be caught by someone in 5 minutes with an on-call assigned to fix the problem ASAP.
- stefan_ 8y agoDing ding ding. The web page is so comically broken it can only be intentional. No user pages even load for me unless I do an explicit reload; the first time around, the spinner just spins endlessly.
- pjc50 8y agoAnother fun one is that a single page load can give you a "rate limit exceeded" failure.
- gt565k 8y agoIt's a dark pattern indeed. Facebook does the same with their mobile web version. If you try to use messenger from a mobile browser, you are redirected to download the app. If you switch to "Desktop" mode in a mobile browser. The messenger is so freaking buggy and unusable, it deletes text as you type and try to send a message. It's made to frustrate you so you download the messenger app.
- MrMember 8y agoAnd imgur. Their mobile website is almost unusable.