I really am curious as to why the new interface works so absurdly badly.
It's not even a question of being a bit slow, the thing uses constantly 90% of my cpu (I'm using a low end netbook), which makes it technically unusable, and it's not like it does that much work. Hell, it just print a timeline.
The only thing missing from the mobile interface is a basic auto-refresh function.
To those of us who border on OCD, unlimited scrolling is not nice; it is an anti-feature. If HN added new content every time I scrolled to the bottom, I don't think I'd get anything done.
I believe it's due to the fixed positioning used throughout the layout. Even on my iMac and MacBook Air it chugs when scrolling through just a page or two of statuses. Super, super annoying.
I have the same problem. Sure, my computer is five years and my browser three years old, but still, no website should be so unusable that you can't use it on older hardware.
Especially if you consider what Twitter is. It is not a 1080p streaming site like Youtube (which works fine btw), it is not some complicated Office suite like Google Docs (which works fine btw), it is just a site that displays short messages on my computer screen. I don't see a reason why Twitter even needs Javascript at all.
I also agree about the never-ending scrolling, it's horrible. I usually think "oh I'll just finish reading this page and then I'll stop" and then without noticing it loads another page ... and another ... and then it turns really slow and urrgh.
Definitely going to try the mobile version next time :)
It's not even a question of being a bit slow, the thing uses constantly 90% of my cpu (I'm using a low end netbook), which makes it technically unusable, and it's not like it does that much work. Hell, it just print a timeline.
The only thing missing from the mobile interface is a basic auto-refresh function.