The thing I noticed in the slow new Twitter is that typing a new status seems to involve continuous autofill-like behavior for each character typed, which seemed to introduce round-trip lag (or javascript-parsing, or...) and causes characters to appear at a rate of ~1/second. Unusable.
And this is one way that dominant sites fall: business considerations are given priority over the user experience. Maybe they just have Flickr-itis and just can't adapt to leaving well enough alone, but for the time being I'm on old-Twitter and not contributing much to the Twitterverse until this is sorted out. If it never winds up being fixed, I've got a head start in living without them.
There is also a possible Second System Effect amongst Twitter's UX gods. It's interesting that after having switched to the new Twitter a couplefew weeks ago, last week I started seeing a "Wanna switch back to the old Twitter?" header. Of course I did, but to me this possibly points to a level of complaints that I did not realize.
I don't think so. I'm not a huge tweeter and so anything that gets in the way of the rare things really jumps out at me, of which the slow status box is no small issue. Other than that the redesign is just that, an expanded sidebar with some fleshed out boxes. No big deal. That it's causing different problems for different people tells me that maybe something else is going on behind the hood. Heck, maybe they just want to be the network and aren't interested in providing a groovy webapp interface anymore, who knows.
And this is one way that dominant sites fall: business considerations are given priority over the user experience. Maybe they just have Flickr-itis and just can't adapt to leaving well enough alone, but for the time being I'm on old-Twitter and not contributing much to the Twitterverse until this is sorted out. If it never winds up being fixed, I've got a head start in living without them.
There is also a possible Second System Effect amongst Twitter's UX gods. It's interesting that after having switched to the new Twitter a couplefew weeks ago, last week I started seeing a "Wanna switch back to the old Twitter?" header. Of course I did, but to me this possibly points to a level of complaints that I did not realize.