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Maybe a controversial opinion, but Lemmy is pretty great as a PWA (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by prof@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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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[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, for starters there is no back button in the PWA on Android. Swiping from the right to go back completely refreshes the feed.

[–] noodlejetski@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the back button works fine when I use Firefox and install a PWA with it.

[–] cptapathetic@rustyshackleford.cfd 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea I can hold down on the button and get the normal history menu from Firefox. They may be using gesture navigation tho and idk how that is affected.

[–] noodlejetski@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use gesture navigation and the back button works without reloading.

[–] cptapathetic@rustyshackleford.cfd 1 points 1 year ago

I think android has both gestures with a back button and without (using a gesture for back) which I think is giving people issues, tho I've never used it myself bc I cannot stand it, IMO it's change for the sake of change.

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can see it happening here https://streamable.com/6alycz

[–] noodlejetski@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

like I've said, it works fine for me: https://streamable.com/fb300o

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like 0.18.0 update broke it. 0.17.4 was good.

[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 2 points 1 year ago

Strange that's happening for you. It's definitely not an all android thing. Must be something about your specific model or your settings. The only time my button bar disappears is with games and even then it's still accessible by swiping up from the bottom.

[–] yenahmik@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not an issue for me. I swipe back and it returns to where I left.

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Count yourself lucky because as you might imagine the bug makes it unusable. It even happens on regular mobile browsing.