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Maybe a controversial opinion, but Lemmy is pretty great as a PWA (beehaw.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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So Jerboa broke on my phone just now and I didn't want to stop browsing Lemmy. Unfortunately no suitable alternative was found so I just decided to check if I could open it in my browser and install it.

To my surprise, it worked. And it works really well quite frankly. Sure, the UI is different, but I'm not at all missing any features.

Did any of you guys try it as well? What's your opinion?

If not, did you even know that was a possibility? It quite frankly never crossed my mind, because Reddit and other platforms always force you to use an app when you open them in a browser.

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[–] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Agreed! Only deal breaker I can see for me is that using a PWA with Safari in iOS instead of Memmy means that when I open a link and go back it starts from the top again. Obviously doesn’t occur when I can open a new tab in the browser but still definitely annoying.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah it's quite unfortunate with iOS. I'm on android but afaik iOS just doesn't support all the PWA features.

    Which is super interesting in its own right, because when you look back at the first iPhone, Steve Jobs actually announced at first that it wouldn't have a Software Development Kit for native apps and all applications will be web based. They obviously didn't stay on that path, but I find it quite ironic.

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