On 12/14/11 11:02 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Even setting aside my own opinions of twitface (ie, that it's useless, moronic, aptly-named, and deserves to go out of business),
By no means Twitter fan here, but I disagree. For Walter and myself Twitter is an app - a convenient means to disseminate brief announcements to those interested.
there are still real issues with it: - It *significantly* slows down the page load. I'll describe it this way: FF2 is well known to be super-slow compared to every other modern browser, including newer versions of FF. And yet, my twitface-blocking FF2 loads the page many times *faster* (it's *very* noticable) than *every* modern non-twitface-blocking browser I've thrown at it.
iframe as mentioned.
- I think it may be crashing Iron (ie, Chrome sans the malware). It's either the twit feed or the google translator, but something on the homepage is crashing Iron/Chrome for me (it happens after the main HTML/CSS loads and gets displayed).
Problem with the browser as mentioned.
- It's extremely visually-jarring. It doesn't fit the visual style of the rest of the page at all. Which might be acceptable on a minor sub-page, but it's no good for the language's primary entryway.
You can change colors, let's see a mock-up.
- People who care about twitface can subscribe to it themselves. Forcing it on everyone else is not only rude, but it effectively amounts to an advertisement for twitface right on D's homepage - which is grossly inappropriate (even regardless of anyone's personal opinions of twitface).
You are making it quite evident you dislike Twitter, but it's tenuous to convert that into the assessment that dlang.org is being rude to its users.
It's no different from sticking "Drink Mountin Dew!" up on there.
It is very different. We're _using_ Twitter, not just advertising it. Andrei
