Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible

Re:Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible by dheera on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @01:51AM (#27672273)

Also because WeChat scans QR codes very fast, and you have to only hit 1 tap to do the whole thing. Once WeChat sees a QR it opens the link immediately and automatically.

The ordering also makes it more useful. Most restaurants in US just have a horrible HTML 1.0 menu with no ordering system, no pictures, and sometimes even goddamn frames.

With default Android it's like Home -> swipe -> camera -> 模式 -> 智慧鏡頭 and then point at the QR code while trying to tap the link that pops up as a tiny tooltip on the screen at the same time without making it go out of focus at the same time. It's awful.

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Re:Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible by Liquid_Fire on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:22AM (#27673617)

I don't have stock Android on my phone so this may be a feature my manufacturer has added, but I'm pretty sure you can press the shutter button instead of clicking on the popup to open the QR code.

Also, as others have pointed out, with Firefox you can scan and open a QR core in two taps, so no need to go to the camera app at all.

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