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> can anyone explain to me why Signal can't be implemented as a completely offline web-app It's a messaging app. What's the point of a messaging app if you're

• hardwaresofton 5y ago
  Edited for clarity, what I meant there was offline-first/PWA. The idea of being able to do things completely offline and use some other medium is also interesting, but what I mean to convey is web apps built with the expectation that the internet may not be connected (and keep working). Generally offline-first/PWAs can be made "installable" by setting metadata on the page that hosts them and doing other things.