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[–] [email protected] 135 points 3 months ago (34 children)

Why does patreon even need to be an app? What value does the app bring that the website can't deliver?

[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (24 children)

There are a lot of people out there that will not use a website and only use an app for things. I'm willing to bet there's some users of patreon on ios that don't even know there is a website.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 months ago (2 children)

lots of people caught mobile brain rot

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it? A native mobile application (not a web view/PWA) will always be massively better as a user experience than anything a website can provide.

People who use apps do so because they've learned from experience that an app is far better UX than the website version, and they're not always right, but they're not wrong most of the time.

If anything, web apps are the real modernity brainrot.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It goes even beyond that.

With a dedicated app, you go into the store and install it and then you have it in your apps that you then can place everywhere.

With a website, you need to have the browser, navigate to that website each time. And yes, you could put a link to that website on your home screen as well but not many user are probably aware of that being an option.

I know that but I still would prefer a dedicated app because it is easier to manage and use more features of my phone. For example, I just tried it on my android phone and the link to a website always opened a new tab in my Firefox.

Then I can manage the notifications of that app depending on what I want it to notify me about.

I can't do that specifically for a single app or website in a browser.

On the other hand, I also wouldn't want to miss a website because I am not always on my phone and, in some cases, it is way more annoying to do something over the phone because I am just not used to it (like writing this comment). Doing that over a website version that I can access on my PC is much easier and convenient.

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