Comment by jaffathecake
9 years ago
I use the Facebook site added to my homescreen rather than a native app. Uses way less space & does everything I want Facebook to be able to do.
I don't want push notifications from every site, but in this case it's valuable.
I wish it worked offline-first, but I know it's something they're looking at.
I'm the same - I've generally taking to avoiding native apps wherever it's possible. So I don't have the Twitter app anymore as Twitter is now a PWA: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-sourc...
Similarly Facebook is just fine without the app and I'm happy with it. It has notifications etc. I'd like it if it was offline first but I'm more than happy with it as is.
As a counterpoint, I'm reading and commenting in this thread using a dedicated native app for reading HN. I find the whole experience to be better. Loading HN in a mobile browser is just painful by comparison.
Native apps are the new desktop apps. OK for gaming, overkill and gaping privacy hole for everything else.
Because web apps are certainly very good at protecting privacy.
"To read news on this site, you must give permission to: Your phone Your camera All your files " I've never seen that on a web app, but it's de rigeur for native mobile.
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