Re:Ask HN: What is the most bloated website you use
by dalmo3 on Friday June 04, 2021 @08:43AM
(#27393007)
I only visit twitter through links shared by friends, and ever since their last redesign 50-80% of the links give an "error loading" message which may or may not go away after reloading the page a few times.
When/if the tweet finally loads, it shows totally unrelated messages at the bottom. I still have to click on it and load it again if I want to see the comments thread.
The upside is that the redesign was the most effective way to keep me completely off twitter.
Re:Ask HN: What is the most bloated website you use
by nojser on Thursday June 03, 2021 @09:17AM
(#27380817)
Originally it was just a fullscreen nag div on top of the already rendered content, so if you can delete elements, it should work for viewing or you can use something like Nitter.net
Nitter.net[0] solves a lot of these problems and paired with Redirector[1], it's a transparent switch out.
There's an expired cert issue 3 days ago, but there are other instances[2]
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Re:Ask HN: What is the most bloated website you use
by FabHK on Thursday June 03, 2021 @08:56AM
(#27380532)
And Twitter refuses to work without Javascript. For 280 characters of text...
Re:Ask HN: What is the most bloated website you use
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @01:32AM
(#27402500)
That is only true when using a web browser or some other software you cannot easily control. I wrote a script to read Twitter without Javascript, without a web browser. Text-only, as it should be (280 chars of text)
It took 15 seconds to load the profile, but I couldn't view any tweets until I'd pressed the "Not Now" button to the pop-up asking me to install the app. Five seconds later, I was able to view my most recent / pinned tweet.
This is all for a service that delivers a timeline of (primarily) text, with some images and video. It should not take 20 seconds to load!