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I live in Rwanda and like a sizeable portion of Twitter's userbase, have very slow internet. When Twitter switched to their new design it got a lot harder to op
by rowanseymour 15y ago
I live in Rwanda and like a sizeable portion of Twitter's userbase, have very slow internet. When Twitter switched to their new design it got a lot harder to open their site... I kept using the old version until they removed it. I don't understand why - it's not pulling down a lot of data, it's not even making that many requests (~50), but this site and other AJAX rich sites just don't seem to work as well as the old less-AJAXy versions on a really slow internet connection with a bit of packet loss
- pavelkaroukin 15y agoAnd it is funny - AJAX-related technologies were promoted exactly to make sites more lightweight and more responsive..
- bergie 15y agoYou could argue that Twitter is more responsive than it would be using server-generated HTML pages. But the initial app download is much bigger than it would be with that method.
- 5l 15y agoWhat Twitter seem blissfully unaware of is that they've traded download speed for rendering speed on lower end devices.
- klous 15y agoif you want a more lightweight version of twitter on any browser, try: http://mobile.twitter.com http://mobile.twitter.com
- TazeTSchnitzel 15y agoI used to use that all the time. It's essentially old twitter with a layout that is a little less wide.
- technomancy 15y agoYou can also play user-agent games to get the Android version in your browser. I prefer the regular mobile edition, but it's interesting to poke around; I've found three separate versions of the site just by faking out my user agent.