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Re:The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter by threeseed on Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:30PM (#30949957)
The confusing part for non-developers is how to get back from Safari to Twitter. Very few people are actually jumping between apps and so they don't know the swipe left/right gestures.

And so they end up going Home, getting distracted by some other app and not going back to Twitter at all.

That's why in-browser UIs exist. Because it makes a big different to keeping users in the app.

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Re:The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter by xg15 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:38PM (#30950046)
> Very few people are actually jumping between apps and so they don't know the swipe left/right gestures.

I mean, maybe that could be an indication that cryptic and completely arbitrary swiping gestures without any sort of discoverability or visual feedback might not be the best interface for fundamental user actions like navigating the history.

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Re:The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter by Someone on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:09AM (#30954542)
> The confusing part for non-developers is how to get back from Safari to Twitter. Very few people are actually jumping between apps and so they don't know the swipe left/right gestures.

I always use the (small) button in the top left of the screen that appears left of the clock, e.g. “◀ Twitter”.

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