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New Twitter desktop look is 'garbage', 'terrible', cry users
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IANS | 16 Jul, 2019
Call it a sureshot Snapchat redesign fiasco in the making. The new
Twitter look on desktop left users baffled on Tuesday who yelled at the
micro-blogging platform for unnecessary trying to bring mobile
experience to a desktop.
The new look, gradually being rolled out
globally which has reached India, has even removed the profile with
photo option on top left -- a must for any social media platform to let
users know whom they are chatting with -- and buried that under a slug
called "Profile".
The tweaks with the design saw users freaking out on Twitter with memes, GIFs and angry posts.
"Do not fix what's not broken," a user wrote.
"This
is such a bad design that no one wants. I really don't know what the
design team was thinking, because this update is not suitable for
desktop usage at all. You've designed it to function like a mobile app
with obnoxiously big buttons + sections, but this ain't a mobile,"
another user posted.
The updated Twitter website brings more of
What's Happening along with access to other features like Bookmarks,
Lists and Profile.
The new version comes with an expanded Direct
Messages section and the ability to let users switch between accounts
faster and directly from the side navigation. It comes with new dark
themes -- Dim and Lights Out.
As part of the redesign, while the
Home, Explore, Notification and Messages options have been shifted to
the left of the desktop, the trending section has been moved to the
right of the screen.
"#NewTwitter in a word, hideous. Please
listen to those of us who actually USE @twitter rather than your ivory
tower engineers. Just because you can design it does not mean you
should. Among ugliest interfaces ever. Don't need live counters. Profile
page is now artless. #Clueless," tweeted another user.
"It is
garbage. I have a feeling you're intentionally trying to kill your
platform for all but corporate ad-shills," wrote another.
"Revert
it. You f***** it up again. At times when I want to full screen a
video, I get put back to the top of my timeline. Really annoying. After 4
years you still couldn't fix video buffering and quality either. Work
on that instead of new UI that is just worse in usability," yelled a
Twitter user @CalemAnnk.
@bazyjonesy wrote: "I tried this new UI a
while back. I could not find a single part of the experience that it
improved. They must have a shower of donkeys working at twitter who
don't have a clue what people want".
"It's terrible. The tweets -
you know, the entire reason people use your site -- take up less than
one third of the screen. Even the always-visible menu (why?) takes up
more space! How did this pass usability testing? A desktop/laptop
monitor is not a mobile phone," said @Paul_LFC.
If CEO Jack
Dorsey has approved this redesign, he must take a cue from Snapchat CEO
Evan Spiegel who approved a major redesign in February 2018 that plunged
the company's growth.
Snapchat's redesign was a disaster. It led Snapchat's user count to actually shrink in March.
The
company was forced to bring back the popular feature called "reverse
chronological order" into its app that allowed users to see recent
stories first.
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