[aprdm]

Software developers are hired by business to solve business problems.

Optimization of speed is sometimes it, sometimes it isn't.

I have worked accelerating algorithms in VHDL with a PCI-e interface, embedded linux without a MMU because a MMU uses too many logical gates, digital signal processing systems (FFT, goertzel, sigma delta filters) that had to process a lot of data under uS and etc.

Now a days I work more in the devops space, full stack dev and whatnot. I have worked with a lot of technologies, different constraints, different teams, different companies (12 in total) in different industries.

Trying to paint all business and developers as bad or as cheap because business requirements do not align with your view isn't really fair.

[bananaface]

Twitter failing to load on a stable connection and crashing the browser if you scroll too far is not the result of business tradeoffs. It's a failure to achieve their own goals.

[aprdm]

Are you sure there's not something wrong with your environment? Twitter has lots of users (me included) and is not a problem I have seen in any platform I access twitter from.

[pantaloony]

I also hit errors following links to twitter more often than not, reliably, on all sorts of environments. It feels like they’re doing some kind of cache-related routing based on headers. Often “refresh” doesn’t fix it, but hitting enter in the address bar does. Seen on iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux, mostly in very normal browsers (I’d expect mobile Safari in particular is at least on their top-5 most-seen browsers). I’d assumed they were trying to annoy me enough that I install their app. I’ve seen many others report the same kind of reliable, very frequent errors.

Notably, I’m also not logged in, which might be another thing they’re trying to get me to do and another difference between those who hit this more often than not, and those who rarely or never see it. It’s been like this for years.

[aprdm]

That sucks! I heard reddit also does things differently when you're logged in/ logged off. I haven't had a bad experience with these platforms myself but it sucks that it is so bad for other people.

[bananaface]

The page loading thing used to happen to me regardless of login status, but it's less frequent now. The crashing was mostly just on mobile - that's still a problem.

If I remember right the app would also crash but it could take bigger loads. Not sure, I uninstalled it.

[pantaloony]

> Trying to paint all business and developers as bad or as cheap because business requirements do not align with your view isn't really fair.

Yes, that would be unfair.