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Re:Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More t... by newman314 on Sunday January 24, 2016 @06:12PM (#10964506)
What I have a hard time with is consuming conversations esp. when there are multiple branches. There is no easy overall thread view.
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Re:Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More t... by currysausage on Sunday January 24, 2016 @06:43PM (#10964612)
Then go back to the stream and find yourself at the top of the page. Have fun scrolling down to where you were. I get it, pagination is totally 1999. But isn't there some JavaScript solution to this?
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Re:Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More t... by r721 on Sunday January 24, 2016 @07:53PM (#10964906)
Also scrolling down is not really infinite: on my system it's around 700 tweets (calculated by Ctrl-F "reply").
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Re:Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More t... by mschuster91 on Sunday January 24, 2016 @11:16PM (#10965526)
It's 800 tweets (per https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/home_tim...), and it sucks if you're one of those who want to read every single tweet posted while sleeping.
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Re:Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More t... by newman314 on Sunday January 24, 2016 @07:22PM (#10964782)
Well, Plurk had something like that but still was not that great of a UX.
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Re:Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More t... by JoshTriplett on Sunday January 24, 2016 @06:24PM (#10964548)
Agreed; while the current time-ordered view works OK for some purposes, a quick toggle to threaded conversations would help massively when reading a large set of replies.
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