<story><title>Building the New Twitter.com</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2019/buildingthenewtwitter.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>To the posted article, I think it&amp;#x27;s impressive they are shipping a single codebase for mobile and desktop. Modular features you can turn off for different views. It&amp;#x27;s smart and I&amp;#x27;ll be curious to see if other sites follow suit.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately they&amp;#x27;ve now ported one of the most offensive feature from mobile to desktop. The &amp;quot;Home&amp;quot; timeline, with tweets out of order. And the real kicker; you can still select &amp;quot;latest Tweets first&amp;quot; but then the app literally undoes your preference every week or two, forcing you back to their &amp;quot;Home&amp;quot; view. It&amp;#x27;s offensive.&lt;p&gt;Also a small thing, but the new desktop Twitter now has obfuscated CSS classes for everything. The names change frequently too, maybe at every deploy? Anyway it makes it a lot harder to modify the desktop HTML presentation with an extension or set of ad blocker rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rasfincher</author><text>One of the main things that keeps me using a third-party client (for as long as I can continue using one) is the Home vs.Latest Tweets feature. I NEVER want to see the home timeline. I always want a reverse-chronological list of tweets. It is user-hostile to have to continuously select Latest Tweets. I&amp;#x27;m sure they see more engagement with the Home timeline, but I just want to be able to flip a switch and never see it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Building the New Twitter.com</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2019/buildingthenewtwitter.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>To the posted article, I think it&amp;#x27;s impressive they are shipping a single codebase for mobile and desktop. Modular features you can turn off for different views. It&amp;#x27;s smart and I&amp;#x27;ll be curious to see if other sites follow suit.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately they&amp;#x27;ve now ported one of the most offensive feature from mobile to desktop. The &amp;quot;Home&amp;quot; timeline, with tweets out of order. And the real kicker; you can still select &amp;quot;latest Tweets first&amp;quot; but then the app literally undoes your preference every week or two, forcing you back to their &amp;quot;Home&amp;quot; view. It&amp;#x27;s offensive.&lt;p&gt;Also a small thing, but the new desktop Twitter now has obfuscated CSS classes for everything. The names change frequently too, maybe at every deploy? Anyway it makes it a lot harder to modify the desktop HTML presentation with an extension or set of ad blocker rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ilamont</author><text>Nothing showcases the failure of the Twitter algorithm to deliver relevant, timely information than seeing yesterday&amp;#x27;s tweets about impending bad weather.</text></comment>