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That's because you're looking at it from the perspective of what the developers of those news websites want, rather than what the users of those news websites w
by sirwhinesalot 1y ago
That's because you're looking at it from the perspective of what the developers of those news websites want, rather than what the users of those news websites want.
The users want to get a document, not an app. That's what the web was made for, documents.
- Jarwain 1y agoThe users want to read an article, I'm not sure the average user really cares if it's delivered as a document or an app
- teddyh 1y agoUsers do want to find the article via a search engine, and the search engine does prefer the article to be a document, rather than an app.
- skeezyboy 1y agohe make a de good point
- yoz-y 1y agoAs a user I want to be able to save the page and read it later. Admittedly even with .war format and other attempts, this was possible only for a brief time. Now we have a crop of readability converters because even print to pdf is useless most of the time.
- squidbeak 1y agoThe user minds when the app gets in the way of the document.
- croes 1y agoThose apps were the article is hidden between ads and newsletter/subscription pop-ups? The apps are mire likely used to hinder ad blockers than benefit the reader. What feature of an article needs an app?