Will we ever have a kbin app for Android or IOS ?
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Moving to: m/AskMbin!@kbin.social – 38 points – Seems like lemmy is getting all the love and kbin only got the add to home screen on ios and android. any updates that i'm not aware of?
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I like PWAs better. They seem 1000 times less likely to have a security problem
PWAs always feel way clunkier than a proper native iOS app.
I fully believe the reason Apollo was the best Reddit app, period, is because it was 100% native and fully embraced all the design patterns used throughout the rest of iOS. No amount of flashy CSS or fancy javascript frameworks can fully re-create that level of cohesion.
The PWA for kbin.social doesn’t have a back button. Security is great but proper navigation is better.
Having the option of native clients, whether on desktop or mobile, is good. Having a mobile app that fully respects its platform's design language or a desktop client that uses less resources than a web browser and will run without issue on something like a Pi can go a long way to making a web platform enjoyable to use.
Hell, you could tweet from a BBS at one point (maybe you still can?) and until July 1st you can browse Reddit in a Linux terminal using basically zero resources. Lemmy has this neat project for a web interface that will run on a toaster, for example. Maybe kbin will get something similar once its API is mature.