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Show HN: Fixing the Twitter web UI

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37 pointsmwsherman14 comments

Of course the biggest fix to the Twitter UI would be to bring back old-school retweets as a button: clicking it would open a tweet box, copy the text of the original tweet, prefix it with " RT @username: " and position the cursor at the front.

I don't have a problem with the twitter.com ui, it over engineers some things but overall it's usable... what sucks is that twitter.com is ALWAYS either completely down or not working properly. I don't know if it's unique to my location (England, I assume they do regional load distribution) but I just can't use the site 50% of the time, pushing me towards using a client which I don't want to do.

That's cool, but my biggest complaint with the recent UI is that I can never find the link to my Direct Messages

Top right corner, click the avatar icon next to the compose tweet icon and a dropdown has an option to see direct messages, but i think you already found it :)

Shortcut key: g and then m.

as a vim user, the space in my brain that holds keyboard shortcuts is entirely full.

I never use any keyboard shortcuts on web apps.

"Move content (timeline) to the left-hand side and the dashboard to the right for easier reading."

Anyone care to enlighten me on how the above makes for easier reading?

Making it wider is enough to get me to use it.

Clicking on your link prompts me to download and install Chrome. Care to explain what it is there that Chrome users see when they hit the link?

It's a Chrome extension for Twitter.

From the "Overview" section:

Makes Twitter a bit better

This Google Chrome extension will:

- Move content (timeline) to the left-hand side and the dashboard to the right for easier reading.

- Expand shortened URL’s wherever possible, so you know where you are actually clicking.

- Display your saved searches & @mentions.

- Widen the layout.

- (Optionally) use a nicer font (Georgia)

It's open source, too: https://github.com/clipperhouse/BetterBird

Uses the lovely Twitter icons from Design Junction.

For some reason this didn't work for me - it would simply not load the twitter page. Cool idea though!

as far as I can remember, this is almost how an older version of twitter looked like. The difference was that the compose tweet box used to be right above the timeline.

nice work!

Can we have a drop down for Google Web Fonts to use. That serif font is either not on my system or is... not pleasurable to my eyes.

Yes, nice idea, I'll work on that.

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