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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by gumby on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:14PM (#22187080)
> more than anything, it is the lack of an efficient "Add to Home Screen" flow, that has doomed mobile websites...and it's intentional

It’s literally a default option on the safari “share” button: “Add to Home Screen”. I’m not sure how Apple could have made it easier.

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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by varrock on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:27PM (#22188369)
Because it's not very intuitive that the share button would allow you to add something to your home screen.
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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by gumby on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @10:10PM (#22188535)
TBF that icon is kind of apple's system hamburger as it contains sharing, sending the current "thing" to other apps, searching etc. If you don't know that (and I agree it's terrible, but at least it's consistent) you probably don't know you can add a page to the homepage at all.
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