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I'm surprised by how basic it looks. They clearly put the features they needed and didn't go further.
by Timothee 17y ago
I'm surprised by how basic it looks. They clearly put the features they needed and didn't go further.
- henning 17y agoI guess it's a question of priorities: work on something 15 people use, or something 15 million people will use? :)
- Timothee 17y agoOh yeah, absolutely. It's just that it seems that half an hour of CSS would make it cleaner and I'm surprised that nobody at Twitter finished something on a Friday afternoon and thought "ok, let me clean this up a little bit" instead of starting something else :)
- vaksel 17y agoJudging by Twitter's uptime record in the past, they probably have had an experience where someone thought that, started coding, and crashed the whole site.
- benreesman 17y agoI like making fun of Twitter as much as the next guy, although in all fairness when I saw this graph I decided to give them a little more credit. They're facing ongoing, unbounded growth. I can't claim to have handled that kind of scaling, let alone handled it without a hitch. http://alexa.com/siteinfo/twitter.com http://alexa.com/siteinfo/twitter.com (make sure to set the timeframe to 'max' to see what i'm talking about)
- moe 17y agoThey're facing ongoing, unbounded growth. ...on an app that consists of a solved problem (pub/sub). Cry me a river. Or better yet, give me a million dollars and I'll build you a twitter that doesn't fail. In 60 days. You'll just have to bring the users.
- vaksel 17y agoMost admin panels look like that, there is no point wasting valuable time building something "pretty" that noone will ever see.
- pbz 17y agoThat's pretty secure if nobody will see it.
- scorpion032 17y agoI think thats a good reason for web frameworks to consider adding admin interface as a part of the framework. Nobody cares to change much.