as a web app, it can be installed on any device that has a browser. Dev doesn't also need to publish his work in app/play stores which may require extra payment
And since it doesn’t have to be published in any app stores, it can be updated much more quickly and frequently.
No kidding I think it had like 4 updates yesterday 🤣
This. I pressed update on my Android, iPhone, and Desktop and it only took like half a second. This PWA is scary good.
I thought pwa were supposed to suck but I honestly haven't even looked at any other apps because wefef works so well
The first time I found out PWA don't suck is when I tried justchilltv last month. Another dope one
This is what blows my mind. PWAs have always been sort of ok. But wefwef is just <chef’s kiss.gif>
that's something i like with react native and over the air updates. In the app i ship at my job, when its only the javascript bundle that's updated we can actually update without the user ever knowing, they just get a slightly longer load time on that startup of the app, making rather easy ensuring that no users are running out of date and broken code.
Why does it take so long to push updates on AppStores?
generally Google play is rather fast, but Apple can be insanely slow sometimes. At my work we've had up to 6 working days to get approval of very minor updates. That's the reason why technologies like react native with over the air updates have gotten as prominent as it has.
As someone who leads an app development team I've started liking pwas more and more the last couple of years. Especially for apps that doesn't do more complex stuff than making api calls and rendering the result to the screen in the form of text.
I think from the point of view of speed/ease of development, the webapp makes more sense for now. Once it's more stable, perhaps a native app is worth trying for performance reasons.
I actually disagree. I love that it’s a lightweight web app.
This is the first web app that I have used which installs, updates, and works like it does. I literally had no idea that something so streamlined and efficient could be done in such a way. Hats off to the developer, I’ll gladly buy wefwef if he ever makes it available on the App/Playstore.
This, Justchill, and Seez are so good, they have me considering learning how to make PWA. I went down a ionic, react native, and flutter rabbit hole yesterday. Lol
What is Seez?
I think you mean: "It's so good it COULD be a native app"
Came here to say this.
Without the restrictions of being on App Stores and going through reviews, devs can move so much faster. I feel like two or three times a day it tells me a new version can be grabbed, and it's caught up to and bypassed the alpha/beta apps from Testflight which get updated once a week (if lucky).
“It’s so good it should be something else” - can’t argue with that thought process
It’s so good it makes a lot of apps really disappointing.
I see a lot of duplicate comments (not necessarily yours). Is it a bug with wefwef?
I think it's related to servers giving you an error message when posting a comment due to load, so you hit post again. Afterwards it turns out you have two comments because the first attempt actually worked
As an obsolete ass Android phone user, thanks for web app. Looking good. Please add lemm.ee
Ok I found the "other" server option now! Cool.
I'm amazed how well it works. Didn't know a PWA could be this good. The only thing that I really miss is being able to save posts to check later, because I hide read posts.
I think it works perfectly as it is now except for the Safari bug where swiping back a page makes it refresh the page and force you back to the top of it. I guess there’s nothing the wefwef devs can do about it but damn it’s annoying.
I never experience what you’re describing. You installed the web app to your Home Screen as instructed and you’re not just using it inside Safari, right?
Dude, I didn't know PWAs could be so good. I'm running the OG Google Pixel and the performance is excellent!
There are definitely advantages to native apps and I basically always prefer them, but wefwef is doing an absolutely amazing job and there are upsides to web apps as well (cross platform, updates, …).
I‘d probably also prefer having this app as a native app, but that means either wrapping it, which doesn’t give you many advantages, or rebuilding it entirely at which point you‘re using a different technology stack than the one people building this are so good at.
There are other people doing that and many of them have the same Apollo in mind while doing so. Let’s just wait and see what each one of them can do, I’m definitely excited :)
I’ve never really used a mobile web app before but I’m very curious to see what the dev can do with it and what the limits might be. So far it’s been great! Not being on the App Store means faster updates. If something breaks the dev can fix it much quicker. It’s also fully cross platform. You can also install it on any device regardless of Android/iPhone and have the same experience.
It would be nice if wefwef supported Push notifications but I don’t think PWAs support that in iOS. But that’s the only reason that I can think of that would be an advantage (besides ease of install and marketing)
But making wefwef dependent on a centralized App Store is kind of antithetical to the fediverse.
Most PWAs I would rather use the native app but wefwef is probably the second best PWA I have ever used
Apple just recently added support!
That’s awesome news. Nothing is really holding wefwef from being able to have feature parity with Apollo then
People actually liked getting notifications from Reddit? That’s like the first thing I turn off when installing a Reddit app lol
As a web app I can (at least on iOS) rename it to something other than “wefwef”.
Yes! If you set the font size to maximum, you get the Apollo app feeling.
I mean it works great as is. What do you not get right now that you’d get as an app?
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