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This is the number one thing that annoys me about so many apps, especially apps with clear use-cases for offline use like listening to music, reading, and learn

by gleenn 2y ago

This is the number one thing that annoys me about so many apps, especially apps with clear use-cases for offline use like listening to music, reading, and learning apps. I don't understand how so many app writers have never gone for a run through a canyon or flown on an airplane. I specifically pay money to SoundCloud for instance just for the "feature" to cache the music locally and somehow it regularly gets stuck clearly from lack of internet. It's probably some metric collection or some other spyware to make sure all the bean counters get their money at the huge expense to usability. Pimsleurs language learning app, and many book reading apps all suffer and all I want to do is not be bored to tears on flights that don't have internet.

szundi 2y ago
They just want live data on your activities and update without sync and stuff however expensive that is even for them, easier to be lazy too Also every <35 years old person is a js/web dev, so that’s what they do on cloud
pocketarc 2y ago
> I don't understand how so many app writers have never gone for a run through a canyon or flown on an airplane. In the UK, every time I got on a train, I'd experience that. And it was worse than not having internet; you had internet, but with extreme packet loss and instability, meaning that every app out there would simply stall, even if it already had the data to do whatever it is I wanted it to do, because it was waiting on some background request to complete. And because I had internet, the request didn't just fail, but it also wouldn't complete in any reasonable amount of time. Very frustrating.
- torstenvl 2y ago
  Audible recently started doing this, to the point where I had to revoke its permissions to use cellular data just to get it to work right.
hughesjj 2y ago
> learning apps. So fun to spring for the paid duolingo only to realize you can only download the next lesson up, not like the entire course. The lessons are like 5m long wtf am I supposed to do with that? I just want to spend my idle time on the plane or camping disconnected from distractions so I can learn, but app developers have made that effectively impossible And this is why I don't pay for, or even use duolingo even though I'm actively learning a language

by gleenn 2y ago

szundi 2y ago

They just want live data on your activities and update without sync and stuff however expensive that is even for them, easier to be lazy too Also every <35 years old person is a js/web dev, so that’s what they do on cloud

pocketarc 2y ago

> I don't understand how so many app writers have never gone for a run through a canyon or flown on an airplane. In the UK, every time I got on a train, I'd experience that. And it was worse than not having internet; you had internet, but with extreme packet loss and instability, meaning that every app out there would simply stall, even if it already had the data to do whatever it is I wanted it to do, because it was waiting on some background request to complete. And because I had internet, the request didn't just fail, but it also wouldn't complete in any reasonable amount of time. Very frustrating.

torstenvl 2y ago
Audible recently started doing this, to the point where I had to revoke its permissions to use cellular data just to get it to work right.

hughesjj 2y ago

> learning apps. So fun to spring for the paid duolingo only to realize you can only download the next lesson up, not like the entire course. The lessons are like 5m long wtf am I supposed to do with that? I just want to spend my idle time on the plane or camping disconnected from distractions so I can learn, but app developers have made that effectively impossible And this is why I don't pay for, or even use duolingo even though I'm actively learning a language