Show HN: Minimal Twitter – drastically simplify and declutter the new Twitter UI (opens in new tab)

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.

[1] https://www.tampermonkey.net/

Neat idea for showing off your design chops. I don’t use Twitter so I don’t have much feedback, other than your ad blocking code being brittle [1].

[1] https://github.com/thomaswangio/minimal-twitter/blob/e076507...

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.

Just installed the Safari extension. It makes the new Twitter bearable. Excellent work!

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.

Thank you for a wonderful plugin.

Can this be made available for brave browser too?

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.

hey good work! just to let you know hidden navigation labels working only in english language.

Where are the trends?

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.

I don't have "new Twitter" so I can't test this yet, but Safari users can probably use the (for-sale-on-App-Store) Cascadea extension and plug in the stylesheet from https://github.com/thomaswangio/minimal-twitter/blob/master/...

The left-nav hover is a good balance UX that's no harm to be official. Thanks for making this. Installed!

I honestly like the new Twitter UI. It's more usable for me than the previous design.

when will someone release a hack that inverts feed order?

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.

Url changed from https://twang.dev/minimal-twitter/.

Edit: and thence to https://www.wang.sh/minimal-twitter/ (by author's request)

It looks very similar to Medium.