Minimal Twitter
Productivity
browser extension for social feed decluttering
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
5 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Execution: 1 for, 5 againstDesign: 3 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Makes the new Twitter bearable and more usable
From 3 comments
Just installed the Safari extension. It makes the new Twitter bearable. Excellent work!
Hoasi on HNI honestly like the new Twitter UI. It's more usable for me than the previous design.
ryanmccullagh on HNThe left-nav hover is a good balance UX that's no harm to be official. Thanks for making this. Installed!
Existenceblinks on HN
Useful, thoughtful design; thanks for the plugin
From 2 comments
If I could make a feature request, one more removal: the giant fixed blue button in lower right. Still can't believe twitter designers thought covering content with a control is…
strict9 on HNThe left-nav hover is a good balance UX that's no harm to be official. Thanks for making this. Installed!
Existenceblinks on HN
Objections
Still not minimalist enough; looks cluttered with sidebar, icons and profile photos
From 1 comment
Came in expecting Emacs. Noticed a sidebar, icons, bold, separators, user profile photos. Not quite minimalist yet! At the end of the day, Twitter can look like IRC.
leshokunin on HN
Promoted-tweet removal script is brittle and was removed
From 3 comments
Neat idea for showing off your design chops. I don’t use Twitter so I don’t have much feedback, other than your ad blocking code being brittle [1]. [1]…
supernintendo on HNThanks for pointing that out, I think I might remove it. Will cause more trouble down the road. Do you have any ideas to make it more safe?
thomaswangio on HNTotally agreed, definitely out of scope. Just removed the script from the manifests. Thanks again!
thomaswangio on HN
Looks very similar to Medium
From 1 comment
It looks very similar to Medium.
lkschubert8 on HN
Requests
Three-column layout with replies in a third column
From 1 comment
If you're taking suggestions, I think a three-column format would be cool. Basically, the first column is the thin icons you have now. The second column is the tweet column. The…
bscphil on HN
Remove the floating blue button in the lower right
From 1 comment
If I could make a feature request, one more removal: the giant fixed blue button in lower right. Still can't believe twitter designers thought covering content with a control is…
strict9 on HN
Force latest-tweets mode and provide a userscript
From 1 comment
If you're taking suggestions, I think a three-column format would be cool. Basically, the first column is the thin icons you have now. The second column is the tweet column. The…
bscphil on HN
Support for Brave browser
From 1 comment
Can this be made available for brave browser too?
busymom0 on HN
Fix hidden navigation labels in non-English languages
From 1 comment
hey good work! just to let you know hidden navigation labels working only in english language.
beachsam0rai on HN
Questions
Does it work in Chrome and with Stylus CSS alternatives
From 2 comments
Have you been able to get this to work? I can't get Stylus to override any styles on the new Twitter site.
usonian on HNInteresting - this works just fine in Firefox, but the same styles in the Stylus extension for Chrome aren't working. I can see them in the DOM, they just aren't having any…
usonian on HN
Where are the trends?
From 2 comments
Where are the trends?
lwansbrough on HNThey're in twitter.com/explore :)
thomaswangio on HN
Alternatives named
Tampermonkey or Stylus user styles
From 2 comments
Random tip: If you have the tamper monkey browser extension [1], you can simply add `document.querySelector('[data-testid="sidebarColumn"]').remove()` to remove the second…
miguelmota on HNOr you can just do this in Stylus: ``` div[data-testid="sidebarColumn"] { display: none; } ``` Also, since Tampermonkey is closed source, it's probably better to use Greasemonkey…
bscphil on HN
Bitlbee or XMPP Twitter bots
From 2 comments
Bitlbee can do that! https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoTwitter
dewey on HNearly twitter had a really great xmpp bot (official!) that was super easy to use and amazing to consume twitter. it really felt like a huge IRC room. i kind of miss that.
fernandotakai on HN
Thunderbird Twitter client
From 1 comment
Mozilla Thunderbird has twitter client I like look of it[0] [0] https://i.ibb.co/V3mwyvB/image.png
mrunseen on HN
Cascadea Safari extension
From 1 comment
I don't have "new Twitter" so I can't test this yet, but Safari users can probably use the (for-sale-on-App-Store) Cascadea extension and plug in the stylesheet from…
Eric_WVGG on HN