I hate "While you were away" with a passion, especially the part where (on mobile) after dismissing it, it asks you "Did you like this?", yet it can't take a hint after the 20th "No".

I've come to suspect that it's asking me whether I liked the tweets, not the feature.

So every time I tell it "I hate this", it thinks I actually dislike the people and tweets, which is actually the opposite.

I have NFI how to interpret it either.

Which begs the question of what they're doing with the data.

The mind boggles.

> So every time I tell it "I hate this", it thinks I actually dislike the people and tweets, which is actually the opposite.

On the official android client, you can dismiss the second popup without clicking on "I like this" or "I hate this" by clicking anywhere on the screen. I'm not going to train your stupid robot for your stupid feature.

I've started doing this, but there's still the problem that those tweets that it thinks I love ... seem to disappear from the timeline.

If I see a "you may have missed..." tweet that was sent an hour ago, if I scroll down to that point in my time line, it's not there.

All I want is a fucking RSS feed of tweets, tbh, organized by date. Nothing more, nothing less. Go ahead and cram it full of ads, like they've already done - just don't try to fucking sort it for me.

> there's still the problem that those tweets that it thinks I love ... seem to disappear from the timeline

I had not noticed that! I always dismiss the "you may have missed" without reading, it's quite insidious. It's time I changed clients

Use your browser UserCSS feature to apply: .has-recap { display: none; }

It does sound like another shitty attempt to show only things they deem relevant. I only follow a small number of people on Twitter _precisely so that I can see everything they post_.

I think it might make sense when I look at some of the trending things though. Then they really need to apply filters, especially to the spammers.

I love this feature! Most of the time I use the old version of Twitter for Mac, but every time go to twitter.com and see "While you were away", I realize that I miss quite a few interesting/important tweets.

I believe While you were away has been around for a long long time. This new thing does sound very similar though.

I actually really like "while you were away," but from the blog post, I can't tell if/how this new feature is different.