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0 pointsRazengan3y ago0 comments

The Twitter UI is a mess.

It’s infuriating me to even try to explain the problem to someone who doesn’t see it.

For example, can you explain to me - without going to try it out first - where exactly to tap (on a phone) to view the comments on a picture post in your home feed?

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kzrdude3y ago

It's messy but as a whole it's not that complicated because the basic model is simple. There's one thing - tweets - and various ways they are listed or threaded.

Jcowell3y ago

Can’t you just tap the post (not the picture , but the post).

RazenganOP3y ago

What do you mean by the “post”? The picture is the post..

Rusky3y ago

The post is a rectangle that spans the width of the column, which contains the picture, and any text commenting on the picture, and the author's name/avatar, etc. It's got a divider above and below to indicate the boundary, and it (at least used to) lights up when you hover the cursor over it.

jimmaswell3y ago

I do find this annoying now that I recall, but it's the same way to go to a thread here, the timestamp.

jimmaswell3y ago

This is only in some specific case too - now that I look again, it's simply tapping the post in most all cases. The annoyance I remembered was that tapping the comments icon with the number by it just opens a view to add a comment, not see them.

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0 pointsRazengan3y ago0 comments

The Twitter UI is a mess.

It’s infuriating me to even try to explain the problem to someone who doesn’t see it.

For example, can you explain to me - without going to try it out first - where exactly to tap (on a phone) to view the comments on a picture post in your home feed?

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kzrdude3y ago

It's messy but as a whole it's not that complicated because the basic model is simple. There's one thing - tweets - and various ways they are listed or threaded.

Jcowell3y ago

Can’t you just tap the post (not the picture , but the post).

RazenganOP3y ago

What do you mean by the “post”? The picture is the post..

Rusky3y ago

jimmaswell3y ago

I do find this annoying now that I recall, but it's the same way to go to a thread here, the timestamp.

jimmaswell3y ago

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse