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Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wish sites that do have PWAs would stop funneling people towards their app.
Especially Patreon, where patronages started using their app would be 30% more expensive for their users than patronages started through their website because of the Apple (and probably Google) tax. Patreon is aware of this tax but keeps advertising their fucking stupid app! You have a Progressive Web App that's works perfectly! Stop it! Get some help!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Twitter had some great outcomes when they rolled out their PWA: https://web.dev/case-studies/twitter

Twitter Lite is now the fastest, least expensive, and most reliable way to use Twitter. The web app rivals the performance of our native apps but requires less than 3% of the device storage space compared to Twitter for Android.

65% increase in pages per session
75% increase in Tweets sent
20% decrease in bounce rate

yet they kept pushing their native apps, probably because they can collect more data through them. The web is way more sandboxed than regular apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's less an endorsement of PWAs and more a condemnation of how garbage the native app always was.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I have never encounteted a PWA that works better than a website OR an app - this from users actual usability viewpoint. They are a cancer, that sits right in between the worst of both worlds.