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Do you have notifications turned off in every native app you also use? The reason scummy linkspam websites are the "only" ones using web notifications these day
by moron4hire 5y ago
Do you have notifications turned off in every native app you also use? The reason scummy linkspam websites are the "only" ones using web notifications these days is specifically because it's not a reliably useful feature. App developers who want to make a good user experience around notifications are instead pushed to making native apps instead.
Personally, I don't use the native Twitter app anymore. I use the web version of Twitter, installed as an app, complete with shortcuts in my launchers. I have web notifications turned on and the experience is nearly identical to the native app. But there are little details that I think make it a better experience, like haptic feedback on mobile when clicking the Like button, or being able to select subsections of text on the screen. I have this on my Android phone, my Linux laptop, my Windows desktop, and my Mac Mini. It's exactly the same interface, everywhere, whereas the native app is ever so slightly different from the web app.
I have a lot of sites that I've installed as apps on my computers and it's great: SoundCloud, LiChess, HBO Max, NetFlix, Azure Portal, TeamWork, a couple of different WebGL games, my own management interface for my app at work. It's all basically just a shortcut to the site, without the URL bar chrome. I like it a lot more than using tabs.