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Kapricore @Kapricore8/28/2023, 8:28 AM

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eggbug enthusiast @aidan8/28/2023, 12:51 AM

Did you know you can install cohost as an app on your phone?

@disky asked:

i think this website would grow if you made an app, i use tumblr and twitter almost always on my phone.

It works great! I love using the site like this. I’m doing it right now, in fact! The instructions are in the site footer:

https://help.antisoftware.club/support/solutions/articles/62000227811-how-to-install-the-cohost-app

We have a total of two developers working on cohost, which means we physically cannot split our time working on both a website and an App Store app (that and also because we allow NSFW content and we have no interest in having google or apple breathe down our necks about that), but I’ve heard from multiple people that they use the mobile app version of cohost almost exclusively!

Give it a shot- I really like using cohost this way and I think you might too!!

#cohost #cohost meta #cohost app

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dead flag blues custom stepmania chart @MxSelfDestruct8/28/2023, 1:02 AM

also worth noting that the mobile website is perfectly functional and 100x better (imo) than any social media site's "app"

effy @effy8/28/2023, 1:03 AM

I'm really hopeful that a public API will open up the potential to use existing third party clients.

Been experimenting with pointing Ivory at Bluesky using https://github.com/videah/SkyBridge this weekend, and it's a great experience, although obviously SkyBridge doesn't have to worry about CSS Crimes.

Sciman101 @Sciman1018/28/2023, 1:05 AM

I've been using the mobile site as an app long enough that I don't really think of it as a mobile site anymore. Honestly forgot about it until reading this

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/28/2023, 1:10 AM

I wonder if people would stop asking this all the time if Cohost just called the PWA the App and there was a link "Get the App" that leads to the instructions to create a home screen shortcut. Because it does seem like there's two kinds of people, those that installed the PWA and love it and those that keep getting lost because they're looking for The App and did not find something called The App...

Anschel @Anschel8/28/2023, 3:05 AM

I mean, the link is currently called "install cohost on your phone"

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/28/2023, 4:04 AM

Correct, but it doesn't specifically say Get The App which is the magic words

Anschel @Anschel8/28/2023, 4:55 AM

Hmm yeah that might help

lori @lori8/28/2023, 11:39 AM

Most people are going to notice as they follow the instructions that it's not an app. Better to be straightforward about it, otherwise it's "cohost only pretends to have an app"

oddstrangepenes transgaystrange @oddmerit8/28/2023, 1:19 AM

any time i use cohost on mobile, i use it as the PWA! it’s the only social media “app” i have installed on my phone AND on my home page (instagram is hidden away in my app library). It Just Works™️!

chell @alterae8/28/2023, 1:35 AM

tbh i prefer keeping cohost open in my browser bc that way i can open multiple tabs for things

hey it's aaron wood @aaronwood8/28/2023, 1:54 AM

i check mine every time i go to lunch! On Android via Firefox.

graham @graham8/28/2023, 2:02 AM

I use cohost close to 95% of my time on here on mobile! Aidan is absolutely right that you can use it on your phone today just fine

lou @rasalhage8/28/2023, 2:22 AM

i might need the common* aversion to bookmarking a website explained to me.

*(how common is it? i have no idea. common enough for this guide to exist, at least.)

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF8/28/2023, 2:48 AM

I don't think it's that. There's a persistent myth that mobile apps are "better" (usually in a "more performant" kind of way). People use websites all the time without issue.

SixArmedSweater @SixArmedSweater8/28/2023, 7:55 PM

I just wanted an icon to drop where Twitter used to be, since it helps my fussy ADHD brain.

♿︎｜Asriel // Azi｜Θ∆｜🏳️‍⚧️@MisutaaAsriel8/28/2023, 8:28 PM

Apps work better and feel more performant because they can tap into the OS' natural gestures and interactions, making it feel cohesive with the rest of the operating system, especially on iOS.

Web apps work but have various flaws, such as losing your place when switching views, white screens whilst loading pages, lack of native gestures like pull-to-refresh, generic layouts which clash with native applications, potentially slower performance (yes, because JavaScript is an interpreted language; On Safari, there is an ellusive bug where the Cohost post editor in particular causes everything to crawl to a halt), etc.

Essentially, they still feel like websites, in particular on platforms where apps have a particular feel and function such as iOS.

Where web apps shine is that they are always up to date, lightweight on storage, and less of a hassle to manage.

noted ear-haver @rachelmae8/28/2023, 2:57 AM

my biggest issue with using the "app" is that it does not allow me to rotate my phone for some reason. it is much easier for me to type in landscape than portrait mode both because my hands are too big and also i get gnarly cramps, so i tend to just not post anything longer than a few words when i'm on the go or in bed

Misty @dog8/28/2023, 3:01 AM

Huh, interesting! Are you on Android or iOS?

noted ear-haver @rachelmae8/28/2023, 3:19 AM

Android 13 on a Pixel 6a

@waitwotno8/29/2023, 10:30 PM

Can confirm too, tho I think this is browser dependent. I can get it to rotate in Hermit Lite Apps browser but not in Kiwi browser.

@aetherlift8/28/2023, 3:06 AM

the mobile version is really wonderful except for one extremely annoying problem which is that if you click on an image, and then click the back button on your phone, it goes back to whatever page your were on before you were on the page where you clicked the image. in every actual app ive used it just closes the image, so i keep doing that by muscle memory and losing my place. i dunno if that's a design choice or just an inherent limitation of it actually being a brower page and not a app, though

but even with that being the case i do almost exclusively use cohost through that system

Aaron Gable @asg8/28/2023, 2:04 PM

They just need a little JavaScript that causes opening the image lightbox to add an entry to the history list and then it'll work fine

@gkrnours8/28/2023, 7:42 PM

lol, yeah same, I keep closing the app when I just want to close the image

@waitwotno8/29/2023, 10:32 PM

Twitter for mobile web also closes images with the back button, so this might be unintentional

A second cooler Cardinal @SprungX8/28/2023, 3:57 AM

I have the app downloaded from chrome on my phone, and I almost like it better because I get a dropdown all the time for my profile, notif, etc. whereas on desktop I have to scroll to the top of the page or refresh since the sidebar isn't relative to my screen.

Bilby @Bilby8/28/2023, 5:02 AM

mayhaps i am dumb but does the pwa have... a back button. If i'm on page 4 and go to a comments section my only option is to reload the whole site to page 1. which really kills the sesh, man

@gkrnours8/28/2023, 7:49 PM

my only issue with the PWA is that half the time, I come back to a black page. That being said, that's probably a firerox or google being a jerk issue. It never happened when I installed through chrome

Gale @GreenGale20008/28/2023, 8:11 PM

Sincerely, I love having this app available this way. There are some other new sites that don't do this and it makes 'em so much harder to use than CoHost. Just allowing me to "Save to Home", and instead of just opening a new tab it just makes a whole mini-app is fantastic.

RoBro @AtteroBro10/20/2023, 11:11 PM

maybe its a firefox thing or my phone is just that old, but the PWA actually loads super slowly for me for some reason. idk what your plans are for future hired hands, but i think its worth developing an app (even an off-store app) in the future whenever feasible

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