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I got added to some twitter DM groups recently where people talk about fast moving trends. what a shitty interface. can't @ mention people in the group without
by vmception 4y ago
I got added to some twitter DM groups recently where people talk about fast moving trends. what a shitty interface. can't @ mention people in the group without it trying to search all of twitter, you don't know their usernames because its different from their profile names, and the @ mention search doesn't even try to link them. can't quote reply or link to a prior message.
Encryption is the least of the things, all that means is that two of my devices probably won't see the same conversations.
- holmesworcester 4y agoWhatsApp, Signal, and Element all handle multiple devices fairly well. Twitter should be able to solve that too.
- eptcyka 4y agoSignal doesn't handle mutliple devices nearly well enough.
- eins1234 4y agoYeah, I had to do a double take when I saw Signal included in that sentence. I value privacy & security personally, and want Signal to succeed, but any compromise to UX in the name of privacy & security is going to make it impossible for Signal to compete as a mainstream messaging platform where network effects are paramount.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoSignal doesn't handle multiple devices at all...if those devices are phone-sized.
- holmesworcester 4y agoTrue, but if you're just using phone and desktop, Signal works well. My point here isn't that Signal is perfect, just that the implementations by Signal and others shows that support for e2ee DMs on multiple devices is solvable. Teams can decide what their users need and how much flexibility is worth supporting. A public company of Twitter's size is clearly capable of solving this for some broad set of use cases.
- tadfisher 4y agoGreat example of Twitter's product issues. You can tell the DM groups feature was someone's side project in the early years that has been left in maintenance mode. No team wants to prioritize it because a) no one has ownership over the product and b) the shitty experience leads to shitty metrics that make it hard to justify fixing it.