The reddit mobile website is hot garbage. All it does is ask you to download the app after literally every action. The back function is a joke, it brings you back to the top of the page every time, not your last post, the top of the fucking page. And needing to log in to view +18 content is bullshit, because it ain’t just porn, wanna view new about Ukraine? Not until you fucking log in. Reddit has unabashedly become cancer. Fuck that place with an ugly pointy stick.
Used my computer to log in into lyft.com to print a receipt and after accepting cookies, logging in, entering a code and accepting some updated terms I was told that lyft.com isn’t supported anymore and needed to use the app on my phone to do anything
Omg. How long until we all have to install programs that can run any app on a computer by emulating a phone environment?
Instead of opening a browser and going to a website, instead we open a VM running phone OS, then go to the installed app.
I know the technology already exists to do this, by the way.
But will the next step then be, “well, the VM hogs a lot of memory, and makes the experience laggy. We are losing usage and customer data harvesting is down. Plus we now have to support an almost infinite number of environments. Or we lock it down so everyone has to have different specific VMs for each app. Or, or, how about this…
We make our lives easier and design a progressive webapp that works in almost any browser and can be used on any hardware that can run a modern browser. Sure, our competitors may copy us, but think of all we can save in development costs! And think of all the increased customer engagement we can benefit from! We just have to rebrand it so everyone thinks it’s new and shiny and not just a website.”
Had this exact scenario happen yesterday. Was taking a bus to get somewhere in my city. Not wanting to use gøøg|€ maps, I went to a different website where half the screen was pretty much “HEY! DOWNLOAD OUR APP NOW FOR THE BEST EXPERIENCE!!!” and using the website itself felt like rubbing my skin against sandpaper vigorously while pouring lemon juice in my eyes and all over thousands of cuts.
Ended up having to use gøøg|€ maps anyways because there aren’t any other viable options for the bus routes for my city that tell me what stop I should get off.
I don’t remember what the site was, but I think it began with a W.
Your mistake is thinking ‘it’ refers to UX when it clearly refers to data collection and advertising (esp. via push notifications).
Almost always the two apps share the same codebase (and therefore UI/UX) anyway because writing native apps is way more expensive than wrappers for the existing webpage.
Holy fuck. I hate it when I try to go to a website on my phone and it brings up the app. NO BITCH! IF I WANTED TO USE THE APP I’D HAVE LOADED THE APP. There’s a reason I’m tong to avoid it and it’s usually because the app doesn’t have the thing I’m looking to do.
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