[jeroenhd]

I've been using Nitter rather than Twitter for a while now, at least for reading tweets. A submit feature and SSE/a websocket listening for new posts would not kill Nitter's performance if that were its intentions to implement but the difference between the two is night and day.

Twitter is the slowest website I come back to after Reddit. It's a hot mess and the fully loaded web app isn't any faster. Yes, the megabytes of content being loaded for rendering 280 characters aren't indicative of web app performance, but clicking through to the main app is still slow and unreliable. My old phone used to get hot from the Twitter web app for no real good reason. There's less than a kilobyte of content in a tweet yet I have constant issues with getting all images to load when they come into view or scrolling back up without having the content jump around because some recommendations block decided it exists again now.

Getting faster devices solved Twitter's problems for me for a while but it's still ridiculous if you open Nitter and compare the performance. It's a clear example of what's wrong with modern web development because the "traditional" design of Nitter does everything I want it to do and 90% of what most people want it to do (needs tweets, DMs to become interactive) at a fraction of the load time.