Twitter warns of legacy site theme shutting down on June 1 - RIP/FU twitter

[Cast Iron Pan]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/twitter-warns-of-legacy-site-theme-shutting-down-on-june-1/

Twitter warns of legacy site theme shutting down on June 1

Twitter is warning users impersonating unsupported browsers to enable the original site theme that the legacy version will be shut down on June 1st, 2020.

In July 2019, Twitter began rolling out a new site interface that many, including myself, was greatly inferior to the legacy template.

It was quickly discovered that if you installed a browser extension to trick Twitter into thinking you were running Internet Explorer 11, which is unsupported, Twitter would continue to show you the older site template.

For those who are using this trick to impersonate Internet Explorer 11, Twitter has started to display a warning that states this trick is going to stop working on June 1st, 2020, when they will shut down the original legacy version of Twitter.

"This is the legacy version of twitter.com. We will be shutting it down on June 1, 2020. Please switch to a supported browser, or disable the extension which masks your browser. You can see a list of supported browsers in our Help Center."

New Twitter warning about legacy version

The help article states that Twitter's supported browsers are Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Google Chrome.


While it has been a good run, it looks like we all get to experience Twitter's new theme, whether we want it or not, starting on June 1st, 2020.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

As if anyone needed another reason NOT to use Twitter in the first place.

 

[Cast Iron Pan]

As if anyone needed another reason NOT to use Twitter in the first place.

This definitely kills it for me. Using their mobile-like interface on desktop is too painful.

 

[The Last Stand]

There goes Twitter's legacy.

 

[Witthel]

This is like if Null forced light mode onto everyone.

 

[Slimy Time]

Pretty sure someone will roll out a "Twitter Classic" add on like there is for Youtube.

 

[BlueSpark]

Say what you want about reddit's shitty redesign, but at least they give people the option of using the old design that isn't absolute trash.

 

[Pickle Dick]

This is like if Null forced light mode onto everyone.

dont give him any ideas

 

[Dick Pooman]

That sucks. I've been using the GoodTwitter extension for so long that I almost forgot about their shitty current format.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

They'd be better off shutting down the entire site instead.

 

[Neil]

the day Twitter goes the way of Myspace is the day I learn how to dance.

I fucking hate its new layouts. The newest one looks like Reddit, except you can't see half of the fucking comments because they're all stuck in some gay ass branching path conversation. Now archiving and screenshotting is gonna be a bitch.

 

[Orion Balls]

Oh, no! Not Live Journal MySpace Twitter!

 

[Celebrate Nite]

This is like if Null forced light mode onto everyone.

At least with something like that, you can download a "dark mode" browser extension to fix the problem

Here, Twitter is actively saying "hey, those things you've been doing to make it look like the old way? LOOOL USELESS NOW!!"

 

[Spamy the Bot]

What's up with tech businesses and just randomly changing interfaces and removing options for the users?
Must be a fetish for the nerds making these things, or at least the design team making excuses for their continued employment due to reworking the reworks after every rework.

Youtube is notorius for that. Don't be YouTube when it comes to UI and UX design.

 

[Bionicle of War]

The newest one looks like Reddit, except you can't see half of the fucking comments because they're all stuck in some gay ass branching path conversation. Now archiving and screenshotting is gonna be a bitch.

Are you sure this wasn't by design?

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Why is it that every time people try to update their layouts, they always turn out to be worse than the previous one?

 

[Neil]

What's up with tech businesses and just randomly changing interfaces and removing options for the users?
Must be a fetish for the nerds making these things, or at least the design team making excuses for their continued employment due to reworking the reworks after every rework.

Youtube is notorius for that. Don't be YouTube when it comes to UI and UX design.

I guess they enjoy the power. Because fucking over the millions of peoples' experience means that you probably affected the girl who rejected their prom proposal 20some years ago in a negative way.

 

[Coffee Shits]

Say what you want about reddit's shitty redesign, but at least they give people the option of using the old design that isn't absolute trash.

The only reason why it's stuck around for so long is because Reddit users grew a collective brain and revolted when they saw how badly Conde Nast was gutting subreddit styles. Once they throw off enough malcontents they will strip themselves of that pesky CSS.

 

[Pissmaster]

What's up with tech businesses and just randomly changing interfaces and removing options for the users?
Must be a fetish for the nerds making these things, or at least the design team making excuses for their continued employment due to reworking the reworks after every rework.

Youtube is notorius for that. Don't be YouTube when it comes to UI and UX design.

The only explanation I've ever heard is from some mislaid notion that it somehow makes the site feel refreshed, keeping users from getting bored and moving onto the next thing by tricking them into thinking they're getting some kind of upgrade.

Obviously that doesn't work though, so, I really don't know. As far as I can tell, Reddit's new interface seems designed around idle, mindless browsing and consooming headlines. Like, you'll get linked to a Reddit thread, see a few comments, keep scrolling down, and accidentally find yourself reading more headlines from other posts rather than the rest of the comments.

 

[Spamy the Bot]

The only explanation I've ever heard is from some mislaid notion that it somehow makes the site feel refreshed, keeping users from getting bored and moving onto the next thing by tricking them into thinking they're getting some kind of upgrade.

Obviously that doesn't work though, so, I really don't know. As far as I can tell, Reddit's new interface seems designed around idle, mindless browsing and consooming headlines. Like, you'll get linked to a Reddit thread, see a few comments, keep scrolling down, and accidentally find yourself reading more headlines from other posts rather than the rest of the comments.

Novelty is usually good for people retention, but they could like implement new features perhaps. Oh well. It's Twitter.
I think it's a general trend that every page wants to be basically the feed where you get the content while cutting down other features. I can understand it from a "getting down to the core of the experience" standpoint, but as a guy who likes tinkering around it is pretty limiting.