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The twitter dark pattern of forcing you to refresh is so stupid

• fouc 6y ago
  What is that all about?! I've been wondering, every time I click a twitter link in iOS from say slack, I get the stupid partial load and then the refresh message.
  • ycombinete 6y ago
    I think it's designed to frustrate you into downloading that app
  • guessmyname 6y ago
    Twitter UI uses a token to authenticate all operations with their own API. When you use the mobile application the token is refreshed automatically. When you use the web version it does the same but only if you are logged in. It happens to me all the time. I don’t use Twitter myself but many people in my circle of friends and colleagues do. They constantly share stuff that is posted on Twitter and almost every time I click these links I get the error message because the token in my web browser storage has been invalidated, so I have to reload the page one or two times to force the UI to request a new token so I can see the content and then forget about Twitter for a couple of hours until another friend or colleague shares another link and the circle repeats again.
• rossvor 6y ago
  Try using nitter -- a no js twitter interface. Reading UX is so much better with it.
• jeroenhd 6y ago
  What pattern is this? I use the PWA with Firefox and I haven't encountered any dark patterns involving refreshing myself.