I don’t mean to belittle the work done on the web version, but the overall experience will just never be on par with native apps. You can tell from the delays to the occasional hiccups. Are there any projects that aim to port WefWef to iOS? We can sideload it at least.
What’s on Memmy that’s missing on wefwef? I tried Memmy and it’s certainly quite slick but then i came back to wefwef cause I like the search function better. I don’t find wefwef lacking in features. I think it’s just as refined as Memmy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why can’t wefwef be wefwef?
I disagree. I’ve tried Memmy but I’ve uninstalled it because it’s still too rough around the edges:
- Upvote/Downvote by swiping shows me the same orange color, unless I revert the finger position and then it seems to show the correct colors.
- Lack of customization (I don’t want buttons on the right side).
- Login asks me for the server, really? The dev couldn’t bother to offer an list and then you could use a custom one if necessary?
- Browsing comments seem to have the same limitations as wefwef: you don’t an arrow to jump from parent comment to parent comment…
For me, wefwef feels better. In fact, what we need is more devs creating webapps to force Apple step up their game.
It’s because of this that PWAs are so crippled on Apple devices (we had to wait until iOS 16.4 to have push notifications, where Android has it for ages), and this is intencional: if devs would prefer PWAs how would Apple charge their $100 (?) annual fee just by letting you use their store?
We need to start the change from somewhere, and maybe this could be the first one to help on this. But as someone who spent too much time on Apple subreddits, I don’t expect the common Apple user to think anything other then it’s self interest…
I completely agree, although not perfect, for me this app is the first time a PWA has felt close to a native app.
Like you say, without attention and development in this area, it will be ignored (or at least de-prioritised) and languish. If some of the rough edges can be smoothed by Apple, then an growing number of users and increased attention is more likely to influence them to prioritise improvements.
Apps like these are the best thing that could happen for the platform.
Optimistically, it could be a win-win: Apple are really against third-party app stores, so web apps have been their go-to example showing the “openness” of their platform. If we get a thriving web app ecosystem on iOS, then it should benefit both the users and Apple.
Even if an app was made, it’d just be a wrapper of the same web app. Dev has stated as much.
It’s just I’m messing around with Memmy and thinking to myself that WefWef NEEDS this. The Apollo UI was already ironed out, now it’s time to bring the native experience to the table as well.
I know what you mean, it certainly doesn’t feel as smooth as stock Android apps, but I still feel it is smooth enough as a PWA, I don’t know what exactly are the limitations on Android for this.
I’d brief my opinion to:
I’d take both options, PWA and standalone app for iOS and Android, this is a too great PWA to just let it die.
