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[-] Chipthemonk@lemmy.fmhy.ml 116 points 2 years ago

Would love for the Apollo app developer Christian to get on board and join the Wefwef developers to make a native app.

[-] shade@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Found wefwef today and love it.

I was kind of bummed when I realized it wasn’t a native app, but so far it’s been working great regardless.

[-] ivenoidea@feddit.de 33 points 2 years ago

I’ve added it to my Home Screen and to be honest I can barely tell it’s not a native app. It’s shockingly well put together so far.

[-] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago

the native site added as an app isn't half bad either, it works in a very similar way but it just has some UI niggles

[-] ivenoidea@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

Maybe I’m being stupid, but isn’t that what I’m doing when I use the „Add to Home Screen“ function in Safari?

[-] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

yep! It works well because the website has been designed to that way

[-] tourist@community.destinovate.com 3 points 2 years ago

That's honestly what I've been using the most. I use a chrome app for my admin account and a Firefox app for this one.

[-] BlahajEnjoyer 5 points 2 years ago

Until I realized that there’s no haptic feedback.

It’s still the greatest alternative out there because it’s very similar to Apollo and not just “inspired by”. I don’t even know if haptic feedback is possible on PWA but I guess time will tell.

[-] hiyaaaaa23 4 points 2 years ago

Yep, probably the second best pwa I’ve used

[-] ayyndrew@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[-] acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ve been using Memmy for iOS. It’s amazing with constant updates. Need to get it installed via TestFlight, but the developer has submitted it to the App Store as well so hopefully it will be broadly available.

Edit: missed the part about pwa, but this is a native mobile app.

[-] RemorniaLivingBlade@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Just curious: what's the best you've been used?

[-] pax@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Same, that’s what I’ve been doing and it really just feels like using Apollo again.

Edit: once I’m able to save posts to my profile, long press to download, and organize groups of communities it will be indistinguishable (for me anyway, a mostly-lurker)

[-] shade@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Same, works really well. The people who developed it have done an amazing job.

[-] WhiskeyZac@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

Agreed. I only viewed reddit through apollo; if he can shift, I’ll absolutely stay with apollo over reddit.

[-] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago
[-] pivotraze@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago

I’d agree. Wefwef is great, although it isn’t as smooth as a native app it seems. But it’s very good regardless. May also be it is a little iffy with iOS 17? Not sure.

[-] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I've been running it in Firefox on android (just made the switch to android so this... app? site? has been a godsend) and its working impressively smoothly, I'd think it was native if I didn't know otherwise.

[-] pivotraze@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

I set up a self host version of it late last night. It now runs much more smoothly for me. I do agree it feels almost native at this point :)

[-] aeternum@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago
[-] ConfusedLlama@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago
[-] Tetraprogrammaton@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

That would he so nice. RiF is delightful. I love it's not about bells and whistles, it was simple looking and the layout was clean and consistent. RIP RiF.

[-] apfelcreme@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

it was so snappy and unbloated. look at the official reddit app or the mobile site. what a pile of garbage

[-] Niello@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

But, but Artemis is for Kbin (for now).

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Is that available yet?

[-] fades@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

+1 to native app, it’s part of what made Apollo great

What do you mean by “join the Wefef developers to make a native app”

Are you saying you wish they would join forces and start or is Wefwef already on it?

I like the look of wefwef a lot, coming from Apollo but I just don’t love web apps for things like this - so a native app from them would be awesome!

[-] Helvedeshunden@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

With iOS 17, web apps will get more features to make them feel more native. It might be so close that it will be hard to tell the difference between a web-developed native app and a PWA. Wefwef is already really nice and it's mere days old. I can't wait to see where they take it.

[-] fades@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

One more thing to be excited about for 17!!

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