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I don't usually quote pg, but I think in this case it's relevant: "Old Twitter is what you'd get if an engineer brought New Twitter to Steve Jobs, and Steve be
by adamhowell 16y ago
I don't usually quote pg, but I think in this case it's relevant:
"Old Twitter is what you'd get if an engineer brought New Twitter to Steve Jobs, and Steve beat on him relentlessly to simplify it."
(http://twitter.com/#!/paulg/status/25998745559 http://twitter.com/#!/paulg/status/25998745559)
To me adding a file upload button, a To:/CC: field, a link field, etc. etc. would be even worse.
The beauty of an API is that power users can download and/or signup for apps that add on to the original service in the exact, fussy way they want. And non-power users can just type into a textarea.
- kyro 16y agoI noticed upon clicking that link that Twitter has broken my back button functionality. I get redirected to the Twitter home page, and subsequent clicking of the back button takes me back to pg's status.
- patrickaljord 16y agoThat's a firefox bug.
- kyro 16y agoI'm using Safari.
- semanticist 16y agoIf you click 'back' again before the Twitter home page loads, it behaves correctly. (That is, basically double-click 'back' from pg's tweet.) I guess it's because Twitter is inserting things into your page history to make its AJAXy interface work with forward/back buttons. These things are a mixed bag of useful and fragile.