Kelly

yeah! i kinda like that i have to actually open the website to check my notifs lol.

plus the iOS app probably wouldn't last long thanks to apple's anti-NSFW brigades anyway

I feel like a lot of people tend to just kind of assume if there's no app that mobile web won't even be an option? Which I feel like, yeah, a lot of really bad social media mobile websites have trained people to assume it won't be an option right away.

you're so right, i literally just added a firefox shortcut for cohost to my phone homescreen and now it's basically indistinguishable from a mobile app

I think the only issue for mobile right now is that the menu isn't collapsible and it takes up the entire front page. You don't get a first glance at the posts when you open Cohost

EDIT: THIS HAS BEEN FIXED IN THE LATEST UPDATE!

no no, i think...

i think i see it working better!! keep typing!!!!!!!

I love this, don't even have to waste your time at the appstore. Shortcut, boom, done.

So far we enjoy the core principles of co-host however the lack of a mobile app sincerely hinders discoverability especially in a certain age group. Additionally your mileage may vary when it comes to the mobile interface, in particular the search and discoverability area is NOT fun to use on a mobile phone. This works great on our iPad though. Which in our amateur opinion makes the site not particularly great for us, as our business is discoverability.

We may not be your target audience as well which is fine too. We're going to give it a few weeks though and if it doesn't do us any good we'll move on to the next thing. No mobile app is going to be a primary reason at least for us. We've noticed there's very few comments on posts so here's to one users opinion. Feel free to chime in :)

I hope you make it a progressive web app eventually! I know they're not well supported on the iOS side but I find they work really really well on android for other social media sites!

Honestly not having a native app is a big plus for me. No need to download stuff, no managing sketchy permissions. It's a website! We love a website.

The only gripe I have with the mobile experience is when I tap the back button to minimize an image, it takes me back a page. That's just me doing it wrong.

most apps are just web browsers and I really don't need to install any more of those I already have like seventy

It's all use cases, tbf - for some people mobile is how they interact with social media, and so the lack of app is a genuine barrier. While the site "works" in a mobile browser, and I like this place a lot (more than the alternatives), I really wouldn't describe the experience as good. And that's fine, it's being worked on, but I don't think it's unreasonable for people to opt out until the mobile experience is better.

For those that are fine with mobile browsers, or use PC as their primary way of Doing Social Stuff, then this place is pretty great.

Progressive web apps are the best of both worlds without the cost and I'd love to see things move in that direction. You can get great performance, caching and a native like interface as much as people want. Some better mobile design would be welcome, but the web is a powerful platform on its own now.

wait no leave it like it is; worse mobile experience = me spending less time on my phone

I do hope that there will be a better dark mode soon so that on mobile the posts taking up the entire screen doesn't blind me and cause pain