We gave you ten whole seconds to enjoy our website and this is how you repay us?
Secret Panel HERE 🔒 https://tapas.io/episode/2553125
(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social)
Sums up my experience with reddit, except I brought my own app originally and everything was cozy for years, then one day, this…
Well that fight was brought to us.
It’s better on the app
Sounds like you need to poach some of the app UI/UX developers for your website.
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.
Why serve things to people anonymously when you can force them to install shady spyware onto devices with all of their personal information?
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."
It’s even worse when the apps sends you to the website for something it can’t do and then you get the download the app prompt.
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.
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.
rubbing my skin against sandpaper vigorously while pouring lemon juice in my eyes and all over thousands of cuts.
Oh boy do I know that feeling all too well. Understandably preferable to endure Google maps than the aforementioned torture.
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