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> Twitter is a stagnant company. They have thousands of engineers that in the span of a decade don't seem to produce much at all, nothing visible or memorable a

> Twitter is a stagnant company. They have thousands of engineers that in the span of a decade don't seem to produce much at all, nothing visible or memorable anyway. As a Twitter user since 2019, I’ve seen improvements even in my short time on the platform. The most obvious example is that you can now restrict who can reply to your tweets. You could make the same argument about HN, and it’d be equally mistaken. How quickly we forget the front end redesign that lets you tweet photos when you quote tweet. The old one didn’t. Or that they collapse new tweets into a button you can click, rather than interrupting your reading flow when it loads more. (Admittedly the old site already had this.)

staindk 5y ago
Twitter auto-pauses videos when I scroll down past them. It has a couple other UX quirks that I really dislike as well. HN probably has 0-1 devs actively working on it and is (likely still) running on two machines ("master" and "standby")[1] Not sure about the comparison between Twitter and HN. I agree with the comment above yours - IMO Twitter has been stagnant in many regards. Why not spend time really nailing down video/image hosting/viewing etc? Why NFT profile pics? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379