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Sep 08, 2008
Yoonoo is like adding the Flock sidebar to Firefox, with less functionality. Plus, just like Flock, it doesn't display my timeline on Twitter, it displays my friends/followers list in order of most recent follower, which is completely useless.
Sep 09, 2008
@Cindy B. Yes. I didn't even last a few hours. It annoyed me almost from the beginning. The popup notifications are useless. One would expect *something* would happen when you click on them ... like take you to the site, tweet, whatever ... And that is but one glaring UI design fault I disliked. And because the javascript engine is single-threaded, every time it updated, I would get the application busy cursor. Now that is only a slight distraction, but it was enough to take away from the user experience.
Sep 09, 2008
@Rythan I agree. Flock is still not quite there, but it's come a long way. hey need to make a few more tweaks, add a few more features (like timelines) and tighten up the memory reigns (it leaks memory like crazy) before I can commit to it.
Although, I'm actually kind of liking Yoonoo (since I discovered that it can display my twitter timeline). The notifications are somewhat useless,and you can collapse the sidebar to minimize the effect it has on normal browsing. Plus it allows me to run twitter and multi-platform IM form inside the browser, that means I don't have to run pidgin and twhirl and firefox, just firefox. |
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