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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by fighterpilot on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:10AM (#28289864)
What is it with modern UI and the tendency to be slow, to have a ridiculous amount of whitespace, and to have a copious number of round button-icons that are not intuitive? It's fucking insulting.
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by MiddleEndian on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:55PM (#28292551)
Several years ago, I went to a tech roundtable hosted by a well-known company, and this topic came up.

Half the devs in the discussion sincerely didn't believe the new sluggish UI trend found on various social media and news sites was slow at all, because their metrics (presumably which measure some sort of server compute time) said they were not slower. It's some sort of religious fervor.

"Who are you going to believe? Me(trics) or your own lying eyes!?"

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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by Fabricio20 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:56AM (#28290517)
It seems that, at least in reddit's case, the issue is preloading a lot of stuff that on the old website wasn't preloaded. Like videos.

Ben Awad[0] made a quick technical comparison between the two websites and this was his conclusion.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jkSiIBDDZ8

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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by pantalaimon on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:05PM (#28291734)
That's also what makes it pretty much unusable when you are on a slow mobile connection
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by asciimov on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:14PM (#28291902)
It's that companies let the designers design without any constraint on usability.

Typically these designers are just fashionistas following the trendy crowd.

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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by ugjka on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:41AM (#28290323)
It is slow because very few people can write effective and fast React code. And then they use WebGL to do fancy overlay animations
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