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Agreed. the relentless nagging by some sites to install the mobile apps needs to die. Just like the other popular post today lamenting the terrible state of s

Agreed. the relentless nagging by some sites to install the mobile apps needs to die. Just like the other popular post today lamenting the terrible state of scrollbars and other UI elements that has degraded the desktop UX in recent years.... Even the attention to mobile web experience seems to have degraded. There was huge focus on optimizing the very limited bandwidth and resources on mobiles... there was WAP and XML ...people atleast tried. Now a 2 year old phone that is effectively a supercomputer struggles to load simple list pages and blogs.

_ahxg 3y ago
> the relentless nagging by some sites to install the mobile apps needs to die. It seems all about the hope that you can keep the user engaged long terms. I don't blame them, competition for user attention is brutal in the age of the SEO content farms, oligopoly of social networks and the "Tyranny of the Marginal User" as posted here a few days ago. But probably way less effective now that most users seem overwhelmed by so many push notifications and instinctively learned to mass ignore or dismiss them (myself included, just randomly noticed that background habit a while ago). And then we end-up with piles of installed unused apps just like lost websites in the browser history.
- albert_e 3y ago
  And just to add -- even desktop websites these days nag people to install desktop apps instead of using the browser (Zoom, Slack)