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I’ve always used TweetDeck, and I always loved it. I liked its features – like support for longer tweets through deck.ly, translations, tweet shrinker etc. Then Twitter bought TweetDeck (so it seems). I have never in my life seen so many good features been removed. There is no longer support for the system tray, you have to keep it in your taskbar (which irritates me, it just makes me lose focus and clutters things up, why should a background app be in the taskbar anyway?). Then the option for choosing where the update popup should appear has been removed. Now it just opens in the middle of my second screen (which I don’t pay much attention to when I’m not chatting, that’s where I got my chat stuff like IRC, Skype etc). On another note on the popup, it suspiciously looks like some sort of IE frame or something, right-clicking it gives options to go back/forward and reload, and doing so completely breaks it.

Deck.ly support was removed, tweet shrinker was removed, translate was removed. A lot of other functions I’ve seen but never used are just not there anymore. I do understand that it seems like they started over from scratch, but at least add all the previous functionality before releasing a new version? At least release the new application as a alpha/beta until it got the same functionality as before, if it’s ever planned to be re-added.