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July 25, 2019 03:17 pm PDT

Hate Twitter's new design? Fix it with your own stylesheet!

I'm not a fan of Twitter's new design: in addition to all the other complaints people have, I hate the fact that if you load a tab with your mentions in it, there's no easy way to refresh it to see new mentions; I also hate the fact that when you click on a tweet to see its context, hitting escape no longer brings you back to the feed (instead, you have to target a tiny on-screen back-arrow that my old eyes have a hard time making out).

But as Dylan points out, the web was designed to solve this kind of problem by allowing each user to design and apply their own stylesheet to any site they visit. That's harder today than it used to be, thanks to obfuscation and a heavy reliance on javascript, but it's still possible, as he demonstrates in his short essay "The Mutable Web."

Dylan experiments with using plugins for this like Stylus, and also checks into the browsers' own tools for changing page layouts (Local Overrides in Firefox, Style Editor in Chrome). The design he comes up with for Twitter deletes the useless "who to follow" and "trending topics" bars, along with a color scheme that matches his blog.

I'm going to have a play with this. I'm not a big fan of yellow backgrounds (see above, re: old eyes), but I'm hoping that I can bash Twitter into something closer to my use-case.

However, one of the web's really revolutionary features is the ability of every user to easily inspect and modify a running system.

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Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NRJWLDfvtjw/view-source.html

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