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Facebook and Twitter want everything done in-app. so they include the whole kitchen sink, including their own bespoke browser (although Twitter t.co links open
by kosasbest 5y ago
Facebook and Twitter want everything done in-app. so they include the whole kitchen sink, including their own bespoke browser (although Twitter t.co links open in Safari sans extensions). Facebook wants to know every link you click on in their app and attach a bunch of tracking params to the URL so the destination site knows who 'you' are.
Facebook is also very feature heavy and they don't apologize for that. Every week something new is added (like in their recent 'favorites' feature and short video Reels crap). They need to be bloated because they are bloated apps by design. It would be nice to have 'lite' versions of the apps however.
- jamil7 5y agoThese massive companies also seem to bake every possible localization on the planet into the app rather than loading them on demand so that users can start using the app immediately. It would help if Apple provided a mechanism to bundle specific localizations with an app download based on the user's locale - they already seem to have the infrastructure to allow this.
- buttocks 5y agoFacebook and Twitter in the Safari browser are good. You can put them on the home screen and they feel more or less like the app. I don't need notifications from these. I would love lite apps. Specifically, I want a Discord Lite app that is smaller and chat only and a Google Maps Lite that is only nav (I guess this is pretty much Apple Maps).