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The Twitter website on mobile devices. I've just timed myself to see how long it took to view my own twitter profile on my phone (I don't use Twitter on my phon

The Twitter website on mobile devices. I've just timed myself to see how long it took to view my own twitter profile on my phone (I don't use Twitter on my phone, hence I'm not logged in). It took 15 seconds to load the profile, but I couldn't view any tweets until I'd pressed the "Not Now" button to the pop-up asking me to install the app. Five seconds later, I was able to view my most recent / pinned tweet. This is all for a service that delivers a timeline of (primarily) text, with some images and video. It should not take 20 seconds to load!

FabHK 5y ago
And Twitter refuses to work without Javascript. For 280 characters of text...
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
  That is only true when using a web browser or some other software you cannot easily control. I wrote a script to read Twitter without Javascript, without a web browser. Text-only, as it should be (280 chars of text) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27056734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27056734
nojser 5y ago
Originally it was just a fullscreen nag div on top of the already rendered content, so if you can delete elements, it should work for viewing or you can use something like Nitter.net Nitter.net[0] solves a lot of these problems and paired with Redirector[1], it's a transparent switch out. There's an expired cert issue 3 days ago, but there are other instances[2] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
dalmo3 5y ago
I only visit twitter through links shared by friends, and ever since their last redesign 50-80% of the links give an "error loading" message which may or may not go away after reloading the page a few times. When/if the tweet finally loads, it shows totally unrelated messages at the bottom. I still have to click on it and load it again if I want to see the comments thread. The upside is that the redesign was the most effective way to keep me completely off twitter.

FabHK 5y ago

And Twitter refuses to work without Javascript. For 280 characters of text...

1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
That is only true when using a web browser or some other software you cannot easily control. I wrote a script to read Twitter without Javascript, without a web browser. Text-only, as it should be (280 chars of text) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27056734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27056734

nojser 5y ago

Originally it was just a fullscreen nag div on top of the already rendered content, so if you can delete elements, it should work for viewing or you can use something like Nitter.net Nitter.net[0] solves a lot of these problems and paired with Redirector[1], it's a transparent switch out. There's an expired cert issue 3 days ago, but there are other instances[2] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

dalmo3 5y ago

I only visit twitter through links shared by friends, and ever since their last redesign 50-80% of the links give an "error loading" message which may or may not go away after reloading the page a few times. When/if the tweet finally loads, it shows totally unrelated messages at the bottom. I still have to click on it and load it again if I want to see the comments thread. The upside is that the redesign was the most effective way to keep me completely off twitter.