Remember when this happened :chomsky-yes-honey:
pretty fucking telling that the only language this clown has to describe overengineering (it probably isn't, but that's besides the point) is a term used to describe the adware OEMs ship on consumer-grade computers
microservices in scare quotes too like it hasn't been the only feasible way for companies with this much demand to scale public-facing compute. like yeah no shit your rinky-dink startups of the world pursue it way too early to the detriment of feature development but jesus christ bro twitter's turned a rails app into serving some incomprehensibly large amount of throughput for over a decade at this point.
reminds me of that thread from that ex-engineer about what a pile of shit the assembly line tesla software installation was
waiting for the day when a server-side failure turns every single Tesla into an unstartable brick
And then he brought back text message 2FA but only for paying subscribers (and it's still like that, I think?)
Of course he brings back the insecure version that also forces you to give them a phone number :big-cool:
Idk if it’s just me but at some point in the last couple weeks the ‘use app’ feature on mobile browsers that would launch the same tweet in the app broke and I miss it.
:so-true: I'd love to open this in the app I've already installed!
:troll: *opens app store instead*
:zoidberg: why not app you installed but instead of the content it's the home screen of the app?
There's so much stuff that just breaks and stays broken forever. Stuff like that, and I can't pinch resize fullscreen images very easily in iOS, and that's been broken for I think years now.
He introduced this "For You" tab that Twitter defaults to, and it has a mix of accounts you follow and recommended tweets. It can be pretty bad because it's a lot of viral rage bait stuff, but still kind of usable, and swiping left will bring you to the standard tab.
Some time ago he announced he was removing all legacy verified checkmarks (for the people that actually matter), and that the For You tab would only have Twitter Blue subscribers. He hasn't gone through with it yet, but imo that would be the thing that kills the site.
