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Seriously. The UX/UI on Twitter has always been a dumpster fire.

• ksenzee 12d ago
  Eh. It was pretty great in 2008, when I used my spotty cell service to tweet road trip updates by texting 40404. O tempora, o mores, etc. etc.
  • notpushkin 12d ago
    Haven’t had that luxury in Russia. Though being a script kiddie I’ve set up a shortcode just for myself (there were these “paid content SMS as a Service” thingies that forwarded SMS text to an HTTP endpoint you provide).
    • embedding-shape 12d ago
      Didn't have that luxury either, but at one point, "Twilio" was the star and poster-child of startups, with their "Guerilla marketing" and completely fresh and new roles of "developer advocates" so of course everyone and their mother had been to at least one Twilio meetup, or your local meetup with a "developer evangelist" from Twilio. Lots of us built our first SMS-capable service as a "Forward this SMS to this HTTP endpoint", I too did the SMS-to-Tweet thing as the US number didn't accept my SMSes (or wasn't available, or something).
  • encom 12d ago
    All of the WWW was better in 2008. Unironically. We've all been frog-boiled into this current hellscape.
    • moron4hire 12d ago
      There was a brief moment when smartphones first came out but the rest of the world's companies weren't taking them seriously yet that was a truly brilliant time and ever since then it's been nothing but downhill.
      • whateveracct 12d ago
        back on when websites were websites. HN of today on my phone reminds me of that.
      • hnlmorg 12d ago
        Smartphones came out in 2008. So your date aligns with the GPs.
        • moron4hire 12d ago
          ... yes. Yes, that was the point.
          • hnlmorg 11d ago
            Ahh sorry. My reading comprehension was obviously failing me then.