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[–] 136 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Just today, my health insurance told me i had to install their app to schedule a specialist visit. After installing it and logging in, I tapped the "specialists" button, and it proceeded to switch out of the app to my browser and connect to their mobile website.

ETA: as a cherry on top, these instructions were on their website, which I was looking at on my desktop. I had to switch to my phone first.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You don't understand. Phone screens are a lot smaller so you need less code to run them.

    Have you even considered how greedy you are wanting to use up so many tokens?

    /s

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  • [–] 106 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Usually I just stop using their website too. Because fuck them.

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  • [–] 69 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

    Okay, I know I know that 99.9% of humans own a mobile phone, and the percentage that own a computer is much lower, but I've always hated how websites (first noticed with Google Search and Facebook) stopped caring about rendering for desktops and just utilised 30% of the screen width. Half the internet is a skinny portrait mode on a landscape screen and has been for ages

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    I have trouble reading across wide screens, though, is that just me?

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    On desktop you can change window sizes to what you want. Don’t like wide text? Use part of the screen. But the inverse is not true: if a site decides to stay skinny you can’t make it wide if that’s what you prefer.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    This is why I miss square screens. And I miss proper UI/UX design which makes good use of screen real estate.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Not just you. For more than a quarter century, we've known that if a paragraph's text lines sprawl across a wide screen, it's more difficult for most people to read. (And the same is true if the lines are too short. There's an optimal range.)

    https://jamesmattison.co.uk/method/why-line-length-matters-for-legibility/

    For this reason, it's good for a website's style rules to limit how wide (measured in characters) a column of text can get, regardless of how much screen there is to expand into.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Fucking Instagram and their Web interface. Try to get the maximum video size on a horizontal screen. Bonus points when a horizontal video is uploaded to their vertical frame optimised viewer.

    I did the math before: it was literally less than 1% of my screen. There's no full screen feature.

    Not like it cost them even a measurable amount of money to have one developed. They keep it awful intentionally to get you to install the app. Fuck companies like that.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Pretty sure narrow text width has been a thing for ages, even before smartphones. Unless you mean a newer, narrower style I guess. It's easier to read when you can see both ends of a line at the same time so even letters are written on portrait paper.

    And I'm not a web developer, but if I had to guess styling a page to limit the text width on a wide screen probably takes more effort, not less.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    Yeah I mean, these are fine:

    But anything thinner is just a waste, such as:

    As for web dev, no doubt some situations would be more complex than others, but usually it's as easy as saying "if the screen is x wide, render like a, otherwise render like b."

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    There's one reason I don't use LibreOffice word processor on Linux, and that's because it uses a mobile scrollbar, which is incredibly frustrating if your doc is more than a few pages, and completely unusable with, say, a multi chapter story. Just released a major UI update, still unusable, because they won't put buttons on their fucking scrollbar in app literally designed around scrolling. Fuck you, Libre.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

    I hope Calligra, Collabora, CryptPad, NextCloud Office, OnlyOffice (uses Microsoft formats -_-) or OpenOffice (LibreOffice's origin, reportedly even worse/older UI) are suitable alternatives! Note that not all of them have apps on mobile in case you value cross-platform usage, and NextCloud and CryptPad are web-based only. Other than that all are great on Linux.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I use OpenOffice. The UI seems fine, to me. Plus they had the Header navigation panel before Libre, which is handy for jumping between chapters.

    And they're not worried about taking that extra 5 precious pixels off the side of a desktop application to scroll with. Not sure how they've managed to spare that space, but the devs are obviously Tetris prodigies or something.

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  • [–] 47 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I miss when UI was designed to streamline the user experience. Nowadays it makes it so hostile that you want their app in order to be able to interact with the service.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    I want a new browser than completely "reskins" the most important websites. There is Reader View on firefox which I wish would be a bit more expanded and flexible. And maybe something like web archive but it only P2P shares the simplified reader view of articles and pages. For that simpler AI models could be very useful.

    If there was just one country on earth that would say no to intellectual property laws. You could put a central repository server there and mirror most of the internet and make it accessible again. I'd gladly pay a few bucks a month for that. Maybe combine it with a VPN.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago

    I fucking hate that. Used to have Revolut but stopped using it. They been annoying me with constant emails if I won't update my data so I went and tried deleting my account. DELETING IS ONLY AVAILABLE THROGUH AN APP. TO LOGIN YOU NEED TO PROOF TPUR IDENTITY.

    The comes research with the findings that, as stated in TOS, it is possible to delete an account though emailing them directly. After like 30 emails between us they did delete it. Most of their replies were telling me I can only delete my account in app. Fuck Revolut.

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  • [–] 76 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Then you get the app and it's just a browser and a skin for there website.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Got an amber alert the other day. It linked to twitter to see more info including pics of the victim. I don't have an account and couldn't view it on mobile without jumping through a bunch of hoops. Wonder how much less effective it makes those alerts that you have to have an acct to see who was fucking kidnapped.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Don't even get me started on sites that automatically load the app when you go there on a phone.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Based om my experience with android but surely any mainstream smartphone works a bit like this.

    That isn't up to the website necessarily. Every app states what links it supports to your phone, that will open the appropriate app automatically. On android you can change this behaviour on a per link per app basis in settings>apps>app-name>"open by default"

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Even if that is how it's working, it's up to the website to send that command. The app isn't looking at the URL you enter. That's why you can force the browser to go to the desktop version of the site to actually get it to load. The URL is the same. In any case, the company controls the app and the website. It's on them for how it works.

    And even if you prevent it from loading the app, there's probably still not going to be a website to load.

    It's annoying because it's the default functionality, not that there is no way to get a website to load.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Only FOSS apps get installed on my phone. Everything else I access via website.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    I used to even skip those , but I broke two phones so the third I got as a gift but its a weak one with only 1GB of Ram and a weak processor most apps run smoother than any web app so I returned to apps its a Nokia 1.3 , and good luck for any one monitoring me , it hangs randomly so I need to take the battery out , its only good feature is that its the best phone I had when it comes to network receiving

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    Hello, yes I am just a desktop user doing um desktop things. Can't install apps sorry

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Reddit is doing this to their site. Sucks when you get there from Google only to have an ad popup for their app and it breaks the page and can't be removed

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You can swap www. For old. And it usually works. For now

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I haven't visited them on mobile as of late, but you could always click 'continue' on the chrome button and continue? unless this is an actual ad that ad blockers block

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's now a full ad like banner on the bottom of the screen that blocks most of the text and prevents anything, no option to close / hide it either. Just use the app or leave

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe if we add some AI? All AI? AI in AI? Hold on, stay! C'mon! We're only going to try to figure out how much you make so we can steal your money by giving you some shit products in return! And AI will take your job...hey come back! C'mon!

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Some people are starting to get worn out by AI being pushed so aggressively and we need a way to make them interested again, so, hear me out:

    AI powered AI

    No more prompt engineering, you can just ask an AI to prompt an AI in an Agentic™ way and the AI will summarize the responses from the AI!

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Reason why I left reddit.

    Also because I got banned.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    And the app is nothing more than a wrapper around a website.

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