Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app

Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by djstein on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:44PM (#18330645)

I believe they have focused on their web app for this. Turning it into a home screen based web application has been far better. Not as great as a native app, but better than the iPhone one scaled up!

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Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by lostgame on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:06PM (#18331462)

Okay, so put a WebKit wrapper around that?

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Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by sterlind on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:16PM (#18331577)

Is there some one-click way to "bottle" web apps like this on demand? I'm thinking of something that does some light crawling, fills its cache up, shims xmlhttprequests for static data, and sandwiches it in a shell. It wouldn't be perfect, but it could always fall back on the real site when its cache falls through..

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Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by hunter2_ on Monday October 29, 2018 @06:46PM (#18332333)

You don't even need a native bottle. The site just needs to offer a PWA manifest and associated service worker functionality. https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/

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Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by lostgame on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:26PM (#18331666)

Yup. Cordova / PhoneGap pretty much more-or-less does the trick for this.

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