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The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better, by a lot. I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw
by MostlyStable 28d ago
The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better, by a lot. I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw away email address sites, so I have an account that I don't care about that I can use for twitter....but the experience just sucks. I don't know how any stands it, even if they don't mind needing an account.
- throooooo 28d agoSeriously. The UX/UI on Twitter has always been a dumpster fire.
- ksenzee 28d agoEh. It was pretty great in 2008, when I used my spotty cell service to tweet road trip updates by texting 40404. O tempora, o mores, etc. etc.
- notpushkin 28d agoHaven’t had that luxury in Russia. Though being a script kiddie I’ve set up a shortcode just for myself (there were these “paid content SMS as a Service” thingies that forwarded SMS text to an HTTP endpoint you provide).
- embedding-shape 28d agoDidn't have that luxury either, but at one point, "Twilio" was the star and poster-child of startups, with their "Guerilla marketing" and completely fresh and new roles of "developer advocates" so of course everyone and their mother had been to at least one Twilio meetup, or your local meetup with a "developer evangelist" from Twilio. Lots of us built our first SMS-capable service as a "Forward this SMS to this HTTP endpoint", I too did the SMS-to-Tweet thing as the US number didn't accept my SMSes (or wasn't available, or something).
- encom 28d agoAll of the WWW was better in 2008. Unironically. We've all been frog-boiled into this current hellscape.
- moron4hire 28d agoThere was a brief moment when smartphones first came out but the rest of the world's companies weren't taking them seriously yet that was a truly brilliant time and ever since then it's been nothing but downhill.
- hnlmorg 28d agoSmartphones came out in 2008. So your date aligns with the GPs.
- moron4hire 28d ago... yes. Yes, that was the point.
- hnlmorg 28d agoAhh sorry. My reading comprehension was obviously failing me then.
- whateveracct 28d agoback on when websites were websites. HN of today on my phone reminds me of that.
- bluecalm 28d agoI think it's great. My feed is people posting tech/AI news, scientific publications, videos of rockets and self-driving cars, things made with coding agents etc. It's full of people who do meaningful work as well and you can see who they are. Dark mode, ability to easily copy images, link to posts, see posts of interesting people by going to their profile. On top of that the feed algorithm is open source and actually sane. What else would I want? It's by far the best designed social media site out there. I know it's a low bar but still.
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- teiferer 28d agoI can concur though. I have a rarely used account and I get Elon on top of the feed all the time. Even as mobile notifications. I don't click on them and scroll past, but they keep coming.
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- bsoqk 28d agoHave you tried blocking him? It’s always seemed an effective strategy to me when I want to stop seeing someone online.
- jasonvorhe 28d agoI'm a nostr user first and X is lurk only but I seldomly see anything by or about Musk and so does everyone else I speak to who actually uses it. I suspect this has become more of a meme by Mastodon/Bluesky users than anything real.
- ronsor 28d agoThe UI/UX is the main thing. I technically have an X-Twitter account that I rarely use, but loading plain HTML with a bit of JS beats loading a whole SPA experience just to read a post.
- OtomotO 28d ago1:1 the same thing with Github
- throwaway27448 28d agoeh anyone going to github knows what they want. At this point it's a flex to be hosted elsewhere
- NooneAtAll3 28d agoNithub when?
- SergiusHN 28d agohttps://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub
- dalmo3 28d agoDiffshub is a start
- throwaway27448 28d agoObviously such a thing would be horrible, but there is sourcehut.
- apefulsin 28d agogit clone
- jmou 28d agoI have a side project that proxies GitHub for a simpler UI https://github.com/jmou/cgithub https://github.com/jmou/cgithub It's live (best effort) at https://cgithub.jmou.workers.dev/jmou/cgithub https://cgithub.jmou.workers.dev/jmou/cgithub
- silverwind 28d agoYeah, the UI is the real and only reason to use Nitter. It's a very similar situation with old reddit.
- OtomotO 28d agoSince a couple of weeks they force you to login to use old.reddit. My visits have dropped by about 95%
- Leonard_of_Q 28d agoUse Redlib [1] or one of the other alternative Reddit frontends. [1] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
- atrus 28d agoAt that point though, it's like why. Reddit is, well, trash. It's barely worth visiting without an account, and if you're going to make me jump through hoops to visit, it's time to accept the message of "we don't want you here" and go somewhere else.
- Leonard_of_Q 28d agoThe reason to use it is that Reddit does provide the occasional answer to questions like "how to get a Samsung SCX 3400 to run on a Raspberry Pi" (etc.).
- apefulsin 28d agoAll those have been ingested by chatgpt, which ironically provides a better user experience.
- Leonard_of_Q 27d agoNow all that's missing is Chatlib, a self-hosted proxy for ChatGPT which makes it possible to a) query the service without leaving a personally identifiable trace and b) separate out the facts from the dreamt-up fiction. Using Redlib I at least get to see the original posts which makes it easier to separate fact from fiction.
- btreecat 28d agoIt can't suck all that much if you're not willing to give it up.
- Dylan16807 28d agoIt sounds to me like they did give up on using the builtin UI.
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- charcircuit 28d agoThe X app loads posts much faster than these sites, so I find the app has a better UI.
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- Zambyte 28d agoI wonder what data Elon is able to slurp up through the app that he can't get through the website. Seems like a good incentive to keep the site worse.
- utopiah 28d agoShows the true cost of surveillance capitalism.
- prophesi 28d agoI remember the days that Bibliogram worked for Instagram. They've given up. A decade ago I could have an RSS feed for what my friends posted, besides the toxic short-form content of IG reels that everyone is now obsessed with post Meta acquisition and their battle to compete with Tiktok.
- ComputerGuru 28d agoInstagram is actively hostile to good ui. They constantly go out of their way to break extensions that add a video scrubber.
- prophesi 28d agoLast I was on the platform, they eventually added a tab for only chronological posts on the timeline a-la how IG used to work. But they gave no exposure to it, _and_ it completely hid the IG stories of your friends so nobody would want to use it in the first place.
- rasz 28d agoGood UI makes it easier to be selective. social media owners dont want you to be selective, they are selling you to advertisers and influencers after all.
- alex1138 27d agoBut the view apparently is Zuckerberg bought it when they were 'barely a company' Yes - and he's utterly ruined it. And we know from his emails it was anti-competitive
- cute_boi 27d agoZuckerberg and his minions have changes html and obfuscate it so much, it is impossible to block ads these days. They are worst than google. Imagine google decided every video will require widevine & there is no way to block ads just like twitch.
- alsetmusic 27d ago> Instagram is actively hostile to good ui. And that idiot, Zuck, thought he was getting a good deal when he poached former head of design, Alan Dye, from Apple. We were relieved to see him go. Our desktop OS is already making small improvements now that he's gone. Context: the guy doesn't understand fundamentals of UX and has made MacOS worse for years. [If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design](https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/115890819509545391 https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1158908195095453...) [Apple has updated the traffic light buttons in macOS 27](https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1vr08s2/apple_has_updated_the_traffic_light_buttons_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1vr08s2/apple_has_up...)
- cebert 28d agoI agree. I think the UI is the best part. It seems more responsive to me too.
- Saris 28d agoSame with Redlib for Reddit, it's just so much nicer to look at.
- csomar 27d agoThis is no longer possible by the way (making an account on twitter with a throwaway email)