Yesterday, Twitter (the website) looked perfectly normal since the day I registered.
Today.. it looks like this;
Now a few weeks ago, Twitter did warn me of changes coming to the website. I assumed there would be a thing where you could preview these changes, and see if you wanted to opt in or not.
..But that wasn’t the case, which is why I’m not happy with the new design.
1. Promoted tweet blockers will need to be updated (as Twitter is able to put in promoted tweets in their Trending section).
2. Tweets with images don’t open fully, you have to click on them.
2a. There’s no longer a box below the tweet where you can respond to it. You have to click on the talk icon to send your tweet.
3. The icons on the left don’t have tool tips when you mouse over them, so you don’t know what you click on until it shows up.
..And worst of all, they have gotten rid of the handy notification thing to the tab. I’m forced to check out Twitter just to see if there’s new tweets or not. Why? WHY did they get rid of something as simple as a notification system to alert you when have Twitter tabbed
out, when a new tweet appears on your feed?!
Clearly this was something for mobile users (since the majority use Twitter in that way). But people like myself use use Twitter on their browser, this.. meh. Well I didn’t ask for
it! 😛
So hopefully Twitter will add a ‘classic mode’, or someone will make a Firefox plugin to restore the classic Twitter. Or.. with time, maybe I’ll get used to it.
EDIT: 7/20/19.. it has been a week since the change, and I STILL HATE IT!! So I decided to look on the many addons from Firefox for a solution. There was a few that claimed would change Twitter back to the way it was, but they offered no results…
..Until, I found ‘Fix my Twitter!‘, which uses a different way to undo the damage; changing the code and clearing out cookies (and actually showing results instead of just
showing “I’m installed! You’re all set!”.. yet nothing happens after refreshing Twitter).
So.. out with the new, and in with the..
YAY!! 😀 Bye-bye, ugly Twitter. 🙂