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Maybe a controversial opinion, but Lemmy is pretty great as a PWA (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So Jerboa broke on my phone just now and I didn't want to stop browsing Lemmy. Unfortunately no suitable alternative was found so I just decided to check if I could open it in my browser and install it.

To my surprise, it worked. And it works really well quite frankly. Sure, the UI is different, but I'm not at all missing any features.

Did any of you guys try it as well? What's your opinion?

If not, did you even know that was a possibility? It quite frankly never crossed my mind, because Reddit and other platforms always force you to use an app when you open them in a browser.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There was an update to lemmy just now, someone said it broke jerboa. I guess beehaw has installed it already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Jerboa just broke on mine right after I made my other comment. So now I am using the web interface.

I belive ther is an updated version of jerboa available that works just no through the play store yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As I have an account on Beehaw and Lemmy.world, I created two PWA on my screen, it works great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’ve been switching between Mlem and the PWA. I’ve honestly found the PWA to be pretty laggy, with things not loading or the whole app just freezing. Given the connection issues I’m also seeing on Mlem, I suspect the issue is server-side.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think the apps currently in development will only get better with time, but currently the web app is my favorite way to browse Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Installed lemmy and elk.zone as pwa via vivaldi. Lemmy only misses the back button.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use the same. In the Lemmy PWA I can just swipe right from the left side of the screen and this works as a back button for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm on desktop at least not working for me except maybe per gestures?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I actually prefer the mobile interface over Jerboa in its current state.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Scroll down to do a complete reload doesnt work on my iphone but other than that it's great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It has worked pretty decently for me. I have not even taken a look at jerboa yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree that the web app is really good. There's some PWA improvements in Lemmy 0.18.0 too (https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-23_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.0).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm using connect for Lemmy and that seems to work really well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is anybody else's top bar grey? I'm on Android: Firefox 115.0b9.

This happened the other day after the admins fixed the icon and name back to Beehaw and the bee.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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