And dark patterns, dark patterns and intentionally crappy UX everywhere. With every redesign the web version of twitter becomes ever harder to use. Right now, when you try to read replies to a tweet, a fairly common thing to do:
- Only a few replies are visible initially
- There's the "more tweets" section below them with algorithmic recommendations
- When you click "load more" on the replies list, it only loads like 4 replies and you have to click it repeatedly to see the entire list, if you have enough patience
And that's only one interaction. There's also the dreaded "{{ user }} follows"/"{{ user }} liked"/"{{ user }} replied"/"{{ user }} received a reply" garbage in the feed. Just hear me out: I want my feed to consist of the tweets from the people I follow, in the order in which they were tweeted. That's it. Nothing more. That's all. If someone I follow would like for someone else's tweet to appear in my feed, there's already a dedicated button that does exactly this.
And I would like to point out that this latest horrendous redesign was rolled out when Jack was still the CEO, and he didn't do a thing to stop it.
- Only a few replies are visible initially
- There's the "more tweets" section below them with algorithmic recommendations
- When you click "load more" on the replies list, it only loads like 4 replies and you have to click it repeatedly to see the entire list, if you have enough patience
And that's only one interaction. There's also the dreaded "{{ user }} follows"/"{{ user }} liked"/"{{ user }} replied"/"{{ user }} received a reply" garbage in the feed. Just hear me out: I want my feed to consist of the tweets from the people I follow, in the order in which they were tweeted. That's it. Nothing more. That's all. If someone I follow would like for someone else's tweet to appear in my feed, there's already a dedicated button that does exactly this.
And I would like to point out that this latest horrendous redesign was rolled out when Jack was still the CEO, and he didn't do a thing to stop it.