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Nobody wants? I want some of them, if they make sense. I will give you that a lot of things just don't really make sense as a webapp, but a lot of other things
by rndgermandude 5y ago
Nobody wants?
I want some of them, if they make sense. I will give you that a lot of things just don't really make sense as a webapp, but a lot of other things do.
There is a lot of "small" things I'd rather run in the confines of a sandboxed webapp than run as a "native" app. Things I use once in every blue moon, where I do not want to download a binary or worse track down a bunch of dependencies and compile myself. Opening a website in <10seconds is just faster than that, and hassle-free, and doesn't mean I have to maintain the stuff (either by keeping it up to date, or remembering to get rid of the thing after use). Even worse are the webapps pretending to be "native apps". Please stop packaging your "webapp" only as an electron app if you only ever use normal web browser features.
My problem with the state of things is just that every other "small" webapp tries to compel me into making an account for absolutely no reason first, or sell me "premium" features, or is plastered full of ads (which is less of a problem with the adblocker I use). Worse, if they do not really let me export my data. But all this also applies to native apps these days.