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Just today, my health insurance told me i had to install their app to schedule a specialist visit. After installing it and logging in, I tapped the "specialists" button, and it proceeded to switch out of the app to my browser and connect to their mobile website.
ETA: as a cherry on top, these instructions were on their website, which I was looking at on my desktop. I had to switch to my phone first.
You don't understand. Phone screens are a lot smaller so you need less code to run them.
Have you even considered how greedy you are wanting to use up so many tokens?
/s
Imagining someone generating the HTML, CSS and JS on the fly using Claude is killing me
No need for any of that PHP or Jinja or HTMX shite /s
Usually I just stop using their website too. Because fuck them.
Because I know they're FUCKING UP TO SOMETHING
Then you get the app and it's just a browser and a skin for there website.
But with enhanced tracking, as a little treat
Yo man, you cannot run this app just to see the website without letting us to see your call history first.
+ 80 trackers.
This app requires location permission... Precise location... And wireless metadata And phone/SMS And contacts And camera
Okay, I know I know that 99.9% of humans own a mobile phone, and the percentage that own a computer is much lower, but I've always hated how websites (first noticed with Google Search and Facebook) stopped caring about rendering for desktops and just utilised 30% of the screen width. Half the internet is a skinny portrait mode on a landscape screen and has been for ages
I hate how Desktop UI in general has been moving towards Mobile design for the last decade.
Everything has to always look like the latest shit from silicon valley, I despise it.
Imo all the work that was put into UI design for the last 20 years has been wasted effort.
I still use GNUStep and OpenMotif based Desktops because I genuinely think that those are better designed, and they haven't been touched in forever.
It's skinny so that they can stuff the sides full of ads.
I have trouble reading across wide screens, though, is that just me?
Not just you. For more than a quarter century, we've known that if a paragraph's text lines sprawl across a wide screen, it's more difficult for most people to read. (And the same is true if the lines are too short. There's an optimal range.)
https://jamesmattison.co.uk/method/why-line-length-matters-for-legibility/
For this reason, it's good for a website's style rules to limit how wide (measured in characters) a column of text can get, regardless of how much screen there is to expand into.
Thankies!
On desktop you can change window sizes to what you want. Don’t like wide text? Use part of the screen. But the inverse is not true: if a site decides to stay skinny you can’t make it wide if that’s what you prefer.
This is why I miss square screens. And I miss proper UI/UX design which makes good use of screen real estate.
Omg, same, so same. But putting anything I need to read (like... anything in a browser usually) in a smaller window is fine. Librewolf letterboxing kinda does it for me.
Fucking Instagram and their Web interface. Try to get the maximum video size on a horizontal screen. Bonus points when a horizontal video is uploaded to their vertical frame optimised viewer.
I did the math before: it was literally less than 1% of my screen. There's no full screen feature.
Not like it cost them even a measurable amount of money to have one developed. They keep it awful intentionally to get you to install the app. Fuck companies like that.
Pretty sure narrow text width has been a thing for ages, even before smartphones. Unless you mean a newer, narrower style I guess. It's easier to read when you can see both ends of a line at the same time so even letters are written on portrait paper.
And I'm not a web developer, but if I had to guess styling a page to limit the text width on a wide screen probably takes more effort, not less.
Yeah, good legibility is around 50-75 characters per line.
I miss when UI was designed to streamline the user experience. Nowadays it makes it so hostile that you want their app in order to be able to interact with the service.
And they do this because apps are the wild west of stealing user info when compared to internet
But the app UX is even worse. It just gives you access to more functionality.
It gives them more access, makes them better able to invade your privacy and snoop around in your phone.
Plus, they want their icon on your phone's home screen so you'll remember them again next time.
I want a new browser than completely "reskins" the most important websites. There is Reader View on firefox which I wish would be a bit more expanded and flexible. And maybe something like web archive but it only P2P shares the simplified reader view of articles and pages. For that simpler AI models could be very useful.
If there was just one country on earth that would say no to intellectual property laws. You could put a central repository server there and mirror most of the internet and make it accessible again. I'd gladly pay a few bucks a month for that. Maybe combine it with a VPN.
I fucking hate that. Used to have Revolut but stopped using it. They been annoying me with constant emails if I won't update my data so I went and tried deleting my account. DELETING IS ONLY AVAILABLE THROGUH AN APP. TO LOGIN YOU NEED TO PROOF TPUR IDENTITY.
The comes research with the findings that, as stated in TOS, it is possible to delete an account though emailing them directly. After like 30 emails between us they did delete it. Most of their replies were telling me I can only delete my account in app. Fuck Revolut.
Got an amber alert the other day. It linked to twitter to see more info including pics of the victim. I don't have an account and couldn't view it on mobile without jumping through a bunch of hoops. Wonder how much less effective it makes those alerts that you have to have an acct to see who was fucking kidnapped.
The amount of news sites where they post Twitter comments on there stories but you need a sign in to view. What's the point of a public announcement service if you can't find out without handing a company your information.
Same with most of the world using WhatsApp for everything
Every bank in my country
And their apps refuse to run on custom ROMs or an unlocked bootloader.
Banks are the one thing that should use apps. Browsers have too many security issues.
The bigger issue is them using the google integrity bullshit, that's not necessary.
My bank's app hangs and crashes my phone.
They should ask to use app, not require it. Users are not babies
So you never sign into your account on the desktop (browser - I don't believe any banks have window/macos applications)?
Only FOSS apps get installed on my phone. Everything else I access via website.
I used to even skip those , but I broke two phones so the third I got as a gift but its a weak one with only 1GB of Ram and a weak processor most apps run smoother than any web app so I returned to apps its a Nokia 1.3 , and good luck for any one monitoring me , it hangs randomly so I need to take the battery out , its only good feature is that its the best phone I had when it comes to network receiving
Don't even get me started on sites that automatically load the app when you go there on a phone.
Even better is when it just opens the homepage of the app instead of a direct link to what was given.
Hello, yes I am just a desktop user doing um desktop things. Can't install apps sorry
And I'm the final boss: a desktop Linux user with noscript.
Maybe if we add some AI? All AI? AI in AI? Hold on, stay! C'mon! We're only going to try to figure out how much you make so we can steal your money by giving you some shit products in return! And AI will take your job...hey come back! C'mon!
Some people are starting to get worn out by AI being pushed so aggressively and we need a way to make them interested again, so, hear me out:
AI powered AI
No more prompt engineering, you can just ask an AI to prompt an AI in an Agentic™ way and the AI will summarize the responses from the AI!
Reddit is doing this to their site. Sucks when you get there from Google only to have an ad popup for their app and it breaks the page and can't be removed
And the app is nothing more than a wrapper around a website.