Refined Twitter

by mofle on 5/4/2016, 7:47 PM with 108 comments
  • by chippy on 5/4/2016, 9:12 PM

    > The new mobile web version of Twitter is much faster and better looking than the desktop one.

    It's certainly much faster. I'm using it on my netbook which used to run the desktop version equally as fast.

    Why can't big development teams think about accessibility as it applies to older hardware? It's clear that it's getting to be a big problem for Twitter let alone other companies (see previous discussions about Bloat)

    The only thing I can think of is that the developers use the shiny new hardware and it runs okay for them. Or if the devs want to change, the management and board runs the fast hardware and it's "working for them".

  • by nemothekid on 5/4/2016, 8:15 PM

    Amazing, if I click a tweet, and go back, I don't lose my place. Wondering why desktop twitter had this problem (until they made that pop-up UX).

  • by mofle on 5/4/2016, 11:14 PM

    Author here. I also made a desktop app for this: https://github.com/sindresorhus/anatine

  • by ssahoo on 5/4/2016, 7:58 PM

    This is why Grease Monkey existed. How many per-site plugins can someone have? http://www.greasespot.net/

  • by pducks32 on 5/4/2016, 8:53 PM

    Does anybody have any insight into Twitter's development structure? Do they have a separate mobile and desktop team; a single team; or separate teams where the desktop team just keeps the thing going until the mobile team can scale theirs up to desktop? Just curious.

  • by agumonkey on 5/4/2016, 10:40 PM

    Mobile web is the new tru web. (it's clean, simple, fast, just like it used to be ~_~).

    That said, I do miss the keyboard shortcuts, and the TT. But I see below it's incoming.

  • by soheil on 5/4/2016, 8:59 PM

    A while back I created this client that lives in OSX Menu Bar also based on the mobile version of Twitter, it includes a few handy keyboard shortcuts.

    https://github.com/soheil/BirdDrop-OSX

  • by melvinmt on 5/4/2016, 8:13 PM

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    Made with React apparently. Interesting.

  • by _puk on 5/4/2016, 9:51 PM

    Thanks for releasing this, and seriously, thanks for the ridiculous amount of effort you seem to put into the open source tools I'm using daily.

    /gush

  • by jra101 on 5/4/2016, 8:34 PM

    Very nice.

    Hopefully it also gets rid of the super annoying "While you were gone" sections.

  • by vinhnx on 5/5/2016, 2:37 AM

    I have been using Twean + uBlock element blocking for awhile now: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twean/mgdbopghpkjm...

    Since I always disable image preview in the mobile app, I find Twean suits my needs perfectly.

  • by balladeer on 5/5/2016, 8:18 AM

    Since we are talking about refined Twitter experience here, I thought I will share my issue and hopefully one of you has a solution.

    So I follow a lot of lit mags and other literature related accounts and persons. Often the same story is (re)tweeted multiple times by the mag accounts and even by persons. Now, getting lesser tweets for a given time is one of the criteria I follow for following any twitter account so that I don't miss others or I've to look at one tweet exactly once in my feed.

    How do I achieve that? Is there a Twitter setting for that? I doubt it - because many of those tweets are actually different tweets with the same link (but different shortened URLs) and separate comments about the article. Add to that many other tweets that fans and followers make and the magazines retweets them.

    That's just too many tweets for one article. I understand that the mags have to do it for the reach and everything but, personally for me, it's very inconvenient. What do you do when you face such problems? (I could just subscribe to their feeds but I wanted to know about cleaning my Twitter feed if at all that's possible)

    An example:

    https://twitter.com/aeonmag/status/728087014407475200

    https://twitter.com/aeonmag/status/728026712894738432

    https://twitter.com/aeonmag/status/727951285488631808

    https://twitter.com/aeonmag/status/727860663515746304

    https://twitter.com/aeonmag/status/727830459175084032

    (I love this mag btw)

  • by MattHeard on 5/4/2016, 9:19 PM

    If the mobile Twitter site supported the keyboard shortcuts of J/K for next/previous, then this would be perfect.

  • by andremendes on 5/4/2016, 8:24 PM

    I'd really use a Firefox version of this. Wondering how far am I from knowing how to port it myself.

  • by timf on 5/4/2016, 9:22 PM

    Unfortunately Twitter's mobile site does not support lists

  • by nikolay on 5/5/2016, 9:45 AM

    "Dumbed Down" != "Refined". I see value in his Refined GitHub, but Refined Twitter I had to disable and will have to revisit.

  • by nailer on 5/4/2016, 8:10 PM

    > > "Chrome extension that enforces the mobile web version of Twitter and improves its interface"

    What does 'enforces' mean? What does this do?

  • by scoggs on 5/5/2016, 1:31 AM

    My group DM's aren't showing up in my Messages section! Otherwise, this would be the perfect extension for me!

  • by smpetrey on 5/5/2016, 2:29 PM

    A heads up on missing features on mobile.twitter.com:

    - No moments feature

    - No trending hashtags

    - Can't tweet polls

    - Gif search missing

    - Tweet analytics missings

  • by sp332 on 5/4/2016, 8:14 PM

    Is there any way to read notifications on mobile twitter?

  • by hans on 5/4/2016, 11:50 PM

    How long until they block it? har har

  • by hackaflocka on 5/5/2016, 3:02 AM

    Apparently Twitter can't find good engineering talent. I hope it considers hiring this developer.

  • by Animats on 5/4/2016, 9:37 PM

    Can you add ad blocking?

  • by krmmalik on 5/4/2016, 8:50 PM

    Any plans for a Safari plugin?