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I'm genuinely struggling to think of a situation where users would be happy to sit through loading a _fifty megabyte_ web page but unwilling to just download a
by filleduchaos 6y ago
I'm genuinely struggling to think of a situation where users would be happy to sit through loading a _fifty megabyte_ web page but unwilling to just download a damn desktop app and be done with it.
- azakai 6y agoMaybe many users would prefer a desktop app if they use it repeatedly, I agree. But if it's a website you just visit once, it's simpler and safer to just download 10MB of compressed data than to install an app.
- kevingadd 6y agoMany people can't install an app. Period. "Can solve my problem after a 2 minute load time" vs "can't solve my problem" is a pretty easy decision to make.
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