Twitter is an incredibly well designed app and website. Well, it was.

What? No. I mean, what? What??

First time I tried to get myself more into twitter I felt the same barrier as trying to use snapchat as a 30+ y.o.

It's beautiful and legible. It's also highly unusable.

Was it? They had an outdated "street art style" startpage with nothing but a login for over 4 years. No search, no trends nothing just a login.

It's not obvious that a social app should show UGC on the frontpage. If you do it wrong, it can be bad for your brand. It's hard to do it right in a way that draws people in, rather then turning them off. You want the app to be associated with content users like on the app, not necessarily with whatever is currently trending.

Yeah you are right it's easier to take the easy way.

You rarely see that page if you actually use twitter

I know but everytime I had to relog I couldn't understand the wasted potential but it's with every social platform the only noteable exception is TikTok.

Did they change this? I just checked twitter.com (without having an account) it its an endless feed of random/popular posts. I opened tiktok.com and it looks similar.

yes, was one of the first thing musk changed.

Random archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220201000154/https://twitter.c...

It's slow as hell and I'm afraid to click anywhere because I'm never sure if there's a way to return.

And never seems to load on the first try, and/or rate-limits you if you lose your place in the stream and try to refresh the page to reset your proprioception.

I think he just spelled Nitter wrong.

Possibly

What changed?

There have been a few broken designs recently, here for example https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1595389202878824448?...

It still is.