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People experience the dismal anti-literate Twitter (concept and style and non-member popup 'experience') and think it's... normal? And the Twitter embed system
by HocusLocus 7y ago
People experience the dismal anti-literate Twitter (concept and style and non-member popup 'experience') and think it's... normal?
And the Twitter embed system is hilarious at times. There is nothing as face-palmy as a controversial tweet that gets embedded in a news article describing it and then the owner deletes it, leaving a news article with a tweet-not-available hole.
Facebook, where you are 10 narrow screens and 1500 back-end js-directed cloud bloat loads loads away from something you saw yesterday? The Modern Web where even scroll keys do not really work anymore?
Or for that matter Youtube, whose text comments are designed to explode into illiterate mush with no hint or hope of proper spaces or paragraph breaks if copied to clipboard? Predatory.
Here we are in the 21st century where people take SCREENSHOTS of things rather than copy information. This is regression, devolution.
Back in the dark ages of 2000 it was considered bad manners to design a system that appeared to scroll endlessly until the web browser simply gummed up and crashed. Search engines wouldn't bother to render any of that. Now it's the preferred way to do it.
And now Google is replacing their results page text stream paragraphs with tile-crap that is rects within rects with acres of white space, and less context.
If only the whole Internet was built like Hacker News.
- chriswarbo 7y ago> There is nothing as face-palmy as a controversial tweet that gets embedded in a news article describing it and then the owner deletes it, leaving a news article with a tweet-not-available hole. There is something more face-palmy: when the owner spots that they've been embedded in a news article, and change the post accordingly. The latest issue of Private Eye gives an example of this happening, where the Mail Online embedded a Facebook post about a mis-spelled party banner; the poster (Simon Harris) saw it was being embedded and changed the text: > For a while, until someone noticed and replaced the linked post with a screenshot, the article proudly stated: "The Daily Mail is an utter shiterag that is only read by Middle England tossbags who voted Leave because some Polish guy called Piotr served them in Tesco, once."
- qwsxyh 7y agoAm I so out of touch? No, it's everyone else who is wrong.