cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/mrlovenstein/p/1386847/apprehension
cross-posted from: https://crust.piefed.social/c/comicstrips@lemmy.world/p/58758/apprehension
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I hate how Desktop UI in general has been moving towards Mobile design for the last decade.
Everything has to always look like the latest shit from silicon valley, I despise it.Imo all the work that was put into UI design for the last 20 years has been wasted effort.
I still use GNUStep and OpenMotif based Desktops because I genuinely think that those are better designed, and they haven’t been touched in forever.
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.
And they do this because apps are the wild west of stealing user info when compared to internet
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.
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.
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.
Don’t even get me started on sites that automatically load the app when you go there on a phone.
Even better is when it just opens the homepage of the app instead of a direct link to what was given.
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
apps>app-name>"open by default"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.
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
Hello, yes I am just a desktop user doing um desktop things. Can’t install apps sorry
Reason why I left reddit.
Also because I got banned.
Same, got shadow ban for no reason
And the app is nothing more than a wrapper around a website.
