Maybe a controversial opinion, but Lemmy is pretty great as a PWA

tlf, 11 months ago

I'm using connect for Lemmy and that seems to work really well.

LimitedBrain, 11 months ago

Oh yeah I tried it. And it even worked better than jerboa in some ways until jerboa had some updates. It still has some features that jerboa doesn't have, like opening links to other instances within your own instance (that's a huge problem right now for me). So yeah the webpage version is still competitive with this app but probably not for too long.

MayonnaiseArch, 11 months ago

It's the only pwa ever to work for me. I use firefox and I'd say this is as fast as when I use jerboa. And I like the way it looks too.

carved_beats, 11 months ago

Installed lemmy and elk.zone as pwa via vivaldi. Lemmy only misses the back button.

shgr, 11 months ago

I use the same. In the Lemmy PWA I can just swipe right from the left side of the screen and this works as a back button for me.

carved_beats, 11 months ago

Hmm on desktop at least not working for me except maybe per gestures?

MachineFab812, 11 months ago

Personally, I have not setup an app yet. Web version is all I know so far, and I’m coming from old.reddit as my previous standby anyways. I mistakenly paid for Fedilab, only to find it doesn’t support Lemmy, or at least not the instance I’m on.

Lemmy web does what I want and expect so far, although subscribing across instances could be smoother.

altz3r0, 11 months ago

I only use the web UI, jerboa didn't click with me. The only issue I have with it s that collapsing comments can be tricky.

T4V0, 11 months ago

Me when trying to collapse a comment.

flora_explora, 11 months ago

Thanks for this ♥

Pechente, 11 months ago

I’m really not a fan of the lemmy / kbin web UIs but I recently installed wefwef.app as a PWA and I really like it.

Iconoclast, 1 year ago

I‘m using both Lemmy and kbin in my browser just fine. Though I‘d like to use a nice iPhone app eventually, it‘s not strictly necessary for me to enjoy browsing and posting.

anlumo, 1 year ago

Installing it as a PWA on my iPhone causes the history buttons to disappear (since they're part of the browser). This means that if I open a comments page, I can't get back to the post list again. I can tap on the logo to get to the main page, but my scrolling position is lost, so I'd have to scroll down to find where I stopped scrolling last time.

Yeah no, still have to use an app.

Pechente, 11 months ago

I don’t have it installed right now but I’m pretty sure the system-wide back-swipe gesture still work here, doesn’t it?

administrator, 11 months ago

Yes, works well, no issue.

anlumo, 11 months ago

Yeah, I discovered that after posting that comment. I never use those gestures, so I forgot to try that.

julianschmulian, 11 months ago

which app are you using? I can‘t seem to find any on my (Swiss) AppStore…

anlumo, 11 months ago

I have signed up for TestFlight beta testing for Mlem.

julianschmulian, 11 months ago

thanks, I tried that for a few days but turns out I can‘t live without a search function… trying wefwef now! so far pretty great

jherazob, 1 year ago

When you think about it it's so weird that it feels like a novelty when a website works well as a website without needing dedicated software, but that's enshittification for ya, has us so used to that artificial barrier that we accept it as normal when it isn't

mrmanager, 1 year ago

I started using Lemmy like that, without any apps. It's fine, specially on desktop.

sikhness, 1 year ago

The Web app is really good! The only issue I have with it since it got updated to 0.18 is that when you click a post link and press back to go to your community, it reloads the entire community and takes your scroll position all the way to the top. It’s really killed the experience on mobile for me and it didn’t do that prior to 0.18 I found.

Anyone else having the same issue?

wafer, 1 year ago

I've never understood the appeal to make a standalone app when a good PWA can be just as good.

GlassHalfHopeful, 1 year ago

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

In respect to Lemmy as a whole, I'm trying to exercise a lot patience.

One of the first things I did was install it as a PWA. It has a sleek UI, but some bugs makes it incredibly hard for me to use. One of the worst is an issue with several of the combo boxes which repeatedly flashing on use. I have to try hitting the appropriate selection multiple times in hopes of it eventually taking.

I use Jerboa most of the time inspite of the many bugs, but I usually end up having to open the PWA for missing functionality.

Like I said...

Lots... And lots...

And lots... of patience.

Aninjanameddaryll, 1 year ago

Yup, and via hermit as well.

It has benefits over jerboa in that everything works right.

But jerboa is a better overall experience because of the way it uses the screen in a balanced way. Coming from reddit 3rd party apps, browsers and PWAs are so clunky. Even old reddit suffers from that, though. New reddit at least is visually closer to app layouts.

Which is tangential. But until jerboa catches up, it's going to be glitchy, which is annoying in its own right, like some community links just crashing the app.