Hello guys.
A few days ago, a discussion thread about "a whole new twitter is coming" by chadskin: https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-whole-new-twitter-is-coming.128235/
Or remark's a few minutes ago: https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-the-hell-did-twitter-do-to-its-desktop-site.129225/
And, now, it has been rolling out and some people, like me, think that there are a few deal breaker in there to really be a good change.
So, I ask you: do you want Old Twitter back? Yes? Well, you are in luck! But, first, let me explain why and how it works.
So, as it turns out, twitter keeps its old UI available and may or may not support them however. The old UIs will be used when you browse with an outdated browser. So, how can we use the old UI without using old software (and potentially OS)? Well, I'm glad you ask!
Say hi to your best friend: User-Agent! Every time you connect to a website, your browser sends its identity in some sort so the page knows what kind of client it's talking to. Now, obviously, there are ways of obfuscating this! Enter "User-Agent Switcher"! Like its name implies, it allows you to change the identity of your browser.
So, back twitter. Apparently, #NewTwitter is... not compatible with old version of Opera (which aren't Chromium based). So, we are gonna use its UserAgent to fool Twitter to serve the old UI while navigating with an updated browser.
So, the steps!
Step 1:
Download User-Agent Switcher
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/
Chrome/Chromium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg
Step 2:
Go into the Addons menu of your respective browser and Enter User-Agent Options.
Pick a line that has a user-agent that dumb such like a ESR version of Firefox. Pick one really.
Change the name to something you want; probably descriptive such as "Opera 9.8".
Then, for the string, enter the following
Step 3:
Go to your twitter page. Click the "User-Agent Switcher" icon in your browser.
Check "Override for Domain" then select your User Agent name you created in step 2.
Log out, clear cache and cookies for good measure. Log back in.
You should have the Old Twitter back. If not, wait a bit until twitter realize what's going on.
Enjoy twitter once again!
Now, I know that #NewTwitter as its advantages over Old Twitter, such as:
* Much more responsive.
* Bookmarks.
* Better dark mode.
* You can enter a thread and close it without leaving where you were on your timeline.
* Unloads recent tweets and loads older ones as you scroll down. That saves on RAM (so, see first point).
* Able to save images, videos... without going into page code.
But there are reasons to hate:
* Adding bookmarks is incredibly burried. When you find it, you'd tell yourself "WHY?!"
* New layout hides your follower and following counts as well as how many tweets you have.
* By hiding the above, you don't have a fast way to see who you are following by clicking "following".
* New layout as a lot of wasted space... anyway, it seems like it wastes a lot.
* The menu on the left seems incredibly amateur as UI design goes.
* And the #1 thing why you don't want #NewTwitter: "Home" vs. "Latest Tweets".
--Yes, the same crap than on mobile. Home is a "algorhythmly selected" selection of tweets from people you follow which, as you guessed, kills the purpose of twitter to see tweets and retweets as they happen.
* You hate change. Don't try to fix what's not broken.
To finish things off, I would like to credit yourcompanionAI on twitter for coming up with this fix! Original tweet:
Cheers y'all.
A few days ago, a discussion thread about "a whole new twitter is coming" by chadskin: https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-whole-new-twitter-is-coming.128235/
Or remark's a few minutes ago: https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-the-hell-did-twitter-do-to-its-desktop-site.129225/
And, now, it has been rolling out and some people, like me, think that there are a few deal breaker in there to really be a good change.
So, I ask you: do you want Old Twitter back? Yes? Well, you are in luck! But, first, let me explain why and how it works.
So, as it turns out, twitter keeps its old UI available and may or may not support them however. The old UIs will be used when you browse with an outdated browser. So, how can we use the old UI without using old software (and potentially OS)? Well, I'm glad you ask!
Say hi to your best friend: User-Agent! Every time you connect to a website, your browser sends its identity in some sort so the page knows what kind of client it's talking to. Now, obviously, there are ways of obfuscating this! Enter "User-Agent Switcher"! Like its name implies, it allows you to change the identity of your browser.
So, back twitter. Apparently, #NewTwitter is... not compatible with old version of Opera (which aren't Chromium based). So, we are gonna use its UserAgent to fool Twitter to serve the old UI while navigating with an updated browser.
So, the steps!
Step 1:
Download User-Agent Switcher
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/
Chrome/Chromium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg
Step 2:
Go into the Addons menu of your respective browser and Enter User-Agent Options.
Pick a line that has a user-agent that dumb such like a ESR version of Firefox. Pick one really.
Change the name to something you want; probably descriptive such as "Opera 9.8".
Then, for the string, enter the following
Close the window
Step 3:
Go to your twitter page. Click the "User-Agent Switcher" icon in your browser.
Check "Override for Domain" then select your User Agent name you created in step 2.
Log out, clear cache and cookies for good measure. Log back in.
You should have the Old Twitter back. If not, wait a bit until twitter realize what's going on.
Enjoy twitter once again!
Now, I know that #NewTwitter as its advantages over Old Twitter, such as:
* Much more responsive.
* Bookmarks.
* Better dark mode.
* You can enter a thread and close it without leaving where you were on your timeline.
* Unloads recent tweets and loads older ones as you scroll down. That saves on RAM (so, see first point).
* Able to save images, videos... without going into page code.
But there are reasons to hate:
* Adding bookmarks is incredibly burried. When you find it, you'd tell yourself "WHY?!"
* New layout hides your follower and following counts as well as how many tweets you have.
* By hiding the above, you don't have a fast way to see who you are following by clicking "following".
* New layout as a lot of wasted space... anyway, it seems like it wastes a lot.
* The menu on the left seems incredibly amateur as UI design goes.
* And the #1 thing why you don't want #NewTwitter: "Home" vs. "Latest Tweets".
--Yes, the same crap than on mobile. Home is a "algorhythmly selected" selection of tweets from people you follow which, as you guessed, kills the purpose of twitter to see tweets and retweets as they happen.
* You hate change. Don't try to fix what's not broken.
To finish things off, I would like to credit yourcompanionAI on twitter for coming up with this fix! Original tweet:
Cheers y'all.
