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I think Twitter was stuck in a not-especially profitable niche. They shift into fast-mode to get out of it and find a better spot, then they can shift back int

I think Twitter was stuck in a not-especially profitable niche. They shift into fast-mode to get out of it and find a better spot, then they can shift back into stable mode once they occupy a better equilibrium. That said, there are lots of bugs in Twitter now, today, when they presumably had the benefit of being in stable mode for a long time. For example, Twitter regularly refreshes and loads new tweets while I'm reading them, pushing the tweet I was in the middle of reading out of view. That seems like a pretty silly bug to exist in a mature product. I regularly reach a state where I have to kill the app and relaunch it because all of the "back" commands just minimize the app instead of taking me back to the timeline. I could go on.

groffee 4y ago
That's not a bug, it's a 'feature', tons of sites do it for whatever asinine reason.
- ldng 4y ago
  Like ... displaying new / refreshing ads ?
- rjh29 4y ago
  Keeping vertical scroll position stable while asynchronously loading lots of randomly-sized content is harder than it seems.
  - mschuster91 4y ago
    Yeah, but there's always the option of showing a "fallback" when loading and inserting content in the middle of a feed - one link at the top "go to last bottom of top" and one at the bottom "go to last top of bottom".
  - vagrantJin 4y ago
    A complicated feature I am 100% certain no user ever asked for.
    - valeness 4y ago
      Actually twitter does it better than anyone else and it's the reason I use it over other apps. The User Experience is unparalleled
WA 4y ago
They replaced their somewhat productive engineering workforce with completely unproductive interest payments. I’m not convinced that this will lead to a better spot. But regarding the bugs, I’m totally with you. Same here. I use Twitter only in the browser. Browse long enough and the page reloads as if it ran out of memory.

groffee 4y ago

That's not a bug, it's a 'feature', tons of sites do it for whatever asinine reason.

ldng 4y ago
Like ... displaying new / refreshing ads ?
rjh29 4y ago
Keeping vertical scroll position stable while asynchronously loading lots of randomly-sized content is harder than it seems.
- mschuster91 4y ago
  Yeah, but there's always the option of showing a "fallback" when loading and inserting content in the middle of a feed - one link at the top "go to last bottom of top" and one at the bottom "go to last top of bottom".
- vagrantJin 4y ago
  A complicated feature I am 100% certain no user ever asked for.
  - valeness 4y ago
    Actually twitter does it better than anyone else and it's the reason I use it over other apps. The User Experience is unparalleled

WA 4y ago

They replaced their somewhat productive engineering workforce with completely unproductive interest payments. I’m not convinced that this will lead to a better spot. But regarding the bugs, I’m totally with you. Same here. I use Twitter only in the browser. Browse long enough and the page reloads as if it ran out of memory.