twitter: February 2008 Archives
I signed up for a StumbleUpon account nearly 3 years ago. Of course I lost the login details and ended up creating another account last year, which I then forgot about. Bernie was inviting people to connect with him earlier this evening, so I dugout the original emails...
While I can appreciate that StumbleUpon is free and useful it's got some really annoying UI / "user experience" glitches.
Why does the main page invite me to "join" when I'm already logged in?
Why does the "invite friends" screen insist on sending emails to people instead of actually searching for them? There is an option to find people via their email address, but it's well and truly buried.
The invite friends email isn't particularly well crafted either. Instead of sending you to a page to join OR login it forces you to signup, so Bernie's emails earlier this evening will probably have frustrated a load of other people (unintentionally on his part).
Jaiku has been offline for most of today, which is a pity. It looks like they're having hardware or database issues again. Pity, as its interface is so much nicer to use than Twitter.
Travian UK have restarted server 1, so hopefully I'll fare a bit better. I'm currently being slaughtered on the speed server :(
While I can appreciate that StumbleUpon is free and useful it's got some really annoying UI / "user experience" glitches.
Why does the main page invite me to "join" when I'm already logged in?
Why does the "invite friends" screen insist on sending emails to people instead of actually searching for them? There is an option to find people via their email address, but it's well and truly buried.
The invite friends email isn't particularly well crafted either. Instead of sending you to a page to join OR login it forces you to signup, so Bernie's emails earlier this evening will probably have frustrated a load of other people (unintentionally on his part).
Jaiku has been offline for most of today, which is a pity. It looks like they're having hardware or database issues again. Pity, as its interface is so much nicer to use than Twitter.
Travian UK have restarted server 1, so hopefully I'll fare a bit better. I'm currently being slaughtered on the speed server :(
Several months ago I wrote about Twitter.
I've since started using Jaiku and I really like it.
Yes there are server issues from time to time, but the user interface is quite intuitive and you can actually follow a conversation.
Twitter really sucks.
The user interface is simple. Simply awful!
There's an API. Wow!
While twitter could be useful it's lack of basic functionality, such as threading, renders it totally useless unless you've only got a limited number of contacts.
With Jaiku if someone posts something you can reply to their message and it displays in a logical manner ie. linked to the original message. If someone else replies you get a thread. You don't need to make much of an effort to follow the conversation.
Twitter on the other hand doesn't seem to have any concept of "conversation". It's just lots of people yelling at each other. Sometimes their yells might make some kind of sense, but for the most part they're completely disjointed.
There isn't as much boring junk on it as previously, but it's still completely overrated.
Jaiku is a lot saner!
I've since started using Jaiku and I really like it.
Yes there are server issues from time to time, but the user interface is quite intuitive and you can actually follow a conversation.
Twitter really sucks.
The user interface is simple. Simply awful!
There's an API. Wow!
While twitter could be useful it's lack of basic functionality, such as threading, renders it totally useless unless you've only got a limited number of contacts.
With Jaiku if someone posts something you can reply to their message and it displays in a logical manner ie. linked to the original message. If someone else replies you get a thread. You don't need to make much of an effort to follow the conversation.
Twitter on the other hand doesn't seem to have any concept of "conversation". It's just lots of people yelling at each other. Sometimes their yells might make some kind of sense, but for the most part they're completely disjointed.
There isn't as much boring junk on it as previously, but it's still completely overrated.
Jaiku is a lot saner!
