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Using sh.itjust.works with the compact is actually nice on desktop.
Wefwef on mobile
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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It’s so easy nowadays to slap some bootstrap and Angular together to build a web frontend. It will work on every device if you don’t do crazy cutting-edge shit. I cannot comprehend why companies dig native apps so much.
With a native app, the only thing you really need to send back and forth is some JSON data and let the app do the formatting for you. It's a much better arrangement when your target demographic includes those with bad internet.
you can do that with a browser too. with service workers, it can also run without an internet connection and/or indefinitely cache the ui part so that it's also just a json api. most websites already work in a very similar way, and even if it's not intentionally set up this way, your browser will do its best to make it like this to keep your user experience snappy.
your browser just also protects you from certain level of system access that shouldn't be granted to any random website you visit, and that's what these apps want.
How is that any different from a web site? There are multiple caches between the browser and the server. The initial load (assuming a prior visit and no updates since) may be smaller than 1kB.
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Try Sink It for Reddit, it’s a Safari extension that removes those nuisances
Do you really want to use the website, if you really need an extension because of that bullshit?
i wish apple could regulate this tighter to demolish the hundreds of shitty companies and practices that evolved post-iphone. notification ads, this garbage, any sort of app tracking, shitty subscriptions, shitty IAPs, etc etc etc
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I'm finding I kinda hate Lemmy on desktop without an RES equivalent though too. I miss being able to expand images and videos inline. Is there anything similar for Lemmy?
To this point, I wish Threads had a desktop UI.
METAs apps effin stink! They're buggy, have annoying habits and I can't do a lot of the stuff I want. The most annoying part of them is their instance on their handcrafted image selector which vaguely sorts content by date.
I've got 20 years of images on my phone. If I want to post an image to a comment that I took 10 years ago, I'll be sitting there scrolling like a numbnut to find it. On web-apps I can just use the file browser or even Android extension to find the image I want in a way that makes sense.
Probably later. Even Instagram has Windows app.
Gross
Why would anyone use Threads?