Came in expecting Emacs. Noticed a sidebar, icons, bold, separators, user profile photos. Not quite minimalist yet! At the end of the day, Twitter can look like IRC.
Does it still work after the recent API changes that killed Tweetbot and other apps? I had this set up a few years ago and miss it but assumed it was done for alongside the others.
Unfortunately, I can’t think of any. Twitter could arbitrarily change where those elements are placed in the DOM at any time (and they probably will to prevent other extensions from blocking promoted tweets). I would just consider this out of the scope of your project and not bother handling it.
You could potentially keep searching upwards for a parentNode that has role="article". While Twitter could change their markup significantly they sorta have to support screen readers so aria attributes will poke through here and there.
Apple should really rethink their extension strategy. Other platforms require a click of a button. Safari requires either going through the App Store, or doing Dev Mode shenanigans.
Agreed, we can all understand legitimate security/quality concerns, but their current policy prevents some great extensions from reaching a wider audience.
At the other extreme, I want an interface that graphically depicts full graph tree of tweets (replies and commented RTs). On a tablet, show the entire tree on one screen.
If I could make a feature request, one more removal: the giant fixed blue button in lower right. Still can't believe twitter designers thought covering content with a control is a good idea on mobile.
Random tip: If you have the tamper monkey browser extension [1], you can simply add `document.querySelector('[data-testid="sidebarColumn"]').remove()` to remove the second sidebar on page load to make it feel minimal without much effort.
is there a good reason that this would be bad practice? it's much more friendly to the end user than uglifying your html with randomly generated ids on every div!
Yep, it's working for me now. Latest Firefox on MacOS. Maybe check if the "test" CSS class appears in the source for you. If not there's probably an obfuscated class you can target instead.
Interesting - this works just fine in Firefox, but the same styles in the Stylus extension for Chrome aren't working. I can see them in the DOM, they just aren't having any effect on the page. I've tried targeting both the testid and the classes and neither seem to work on Chrome.
As I recall Twitter has some fairly strict CSP rules, and extensions have had problems with them in the past. Maybe the Stylus extension can bypass rules in Firefox that it's not able to in Chrome?
If you're taking suggestions, I think a three-column format would be cool. Basically, the first column is the thin icons you have now. The second column is the tweet column. The third column (equal in size to the second column) would appear when you click on a tweet; instead of loading the responses to that tweet as a modal view as it does now, the responses would appear in the right column.
Basically, this would make Twitter a lot more like several email clients or an RSS reader. Quick and dirty mockup: https://i.imgur.com/Uh9Rbcz.png
Also, would be nice to force Twitter into "latest tweets" mode, and also to provide a userscript for those of us who prefer to avoid untrusted addons.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 111 ms ] threadi kind of miss that.
[0] https://i.ibb.co/V3mwyvB/image.png
[1] https://github.com/thomaswangio/minimal-twitter/blob/e076507...
Thank you for a wonderful plugin.
[1] https://www.tampermonkey.net/
I don't know about the rest of you, but I browse the web in English, which is read left to right and top to bottom.
Basically, this would make Twitter a lot more like several email clients or an RSS reader. Quick and dirty mockup: https://i.imgur.com/Uh9Rbcz.png
Also, would be nice to force Twitter into "latest tweets" mode, and also to provide a userscript for those of us who prefer to avoid untrusted addons.
Edit: and thence to https://www.wang.sh/minimal-twitter/ (by author's request)