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5 pointsowenconti6y ago3 comments

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captn3m06y ago

I’ve been planning to make this for a long time, so some suggestions:

- Remove the buttons and switch to a Tinder swipe. Saves space on mobiles

- Prefetch content for next follower

- only show last 3 tweets

- option to hide RTs

- Sort by last activity. The people I just followed are the ones I’m least likely to unfollow now, so show either old accounts or older follows first.

- bio is important. It needs to be present for context.

For a rough implementation of the Tinder idea, see https://github.com/captn3m0/quick-list-select which I made to help me filter large lists manually.

Disclaimer: I've only tried it on my mobile so far

owencontiOP6y ago

Hey thanks for the feedback! Mobile was definitely an after thought so I'll have to look into the swiping idea.

- Prefetching next follower makes a lot of sense

- I originally only wanted to show the last 5 tweets, but Twitter's API is weird. Adding the option to hide retweets should be doable.

- "Sort by last activity": YES! I 100% agree it makes way more sense to list by oldest follows first, however, again Twitter's API limits this :( I could go through and pull ALL follows up front, which I may do eventually.

- I can definitely display the bio

Thanks again for the feedback!

captn3m06y ago

>pull ALL follows up front, which I may do eventually.

This is what I was thinking of as well. (The twitter API is really terrible at this). Most people won't have enough followers to cause issues.

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captn3m06y ago

I’ve been planning to make this for a long time, so some suggestions:

- Remove the buttons and switch to a Tinder swipe. Saves space on mobiles

- Prefetch content for next follower

- only show last 3 tweets

- option to hide RTs

- Sort by last activity. The people I just followed are the ones I’m least likely to unfollow now, so show either old accounts or older follows first.

- bio is important. It needs to be present for context.

For a rough implementation of the Tinder idea, see https://github.com/captn3m0/quick-list-select which I made to help me filter large lists manually.

Disclaimer: I've only tried it on my mobile so far

owencontiOP6y ago

Hey thanks for the feedback! Mobile was definitely an after thought so I'll have to look into the swiping idea.

- Prefetching next follower makes a lot of sense

- I originally only wanted to show the last 5 tweets, but Twitter's API is weird. Adding the option to hide retweets should be doable.

- I can definitely display the bio

Thanks again for the feedback!

captn3m06y ago

>pull ALL follows up front, which I may do eventually.

This is what I was thinking of as well. (The twitter API is really terrible at this). Most people won't have enough followers to cause issues.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse