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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by MayeulC on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:24AM (#30453492)
https://drewdevault.com/2021/09/23/Nitter-and-other-internet...

Use nitter, libreddit, invidious, bibliogram (is that one dead?) and others.

It's a shame that these big companies seem to suck at making usable websites. They probably chase "conversion" to new accounts at all costs. And that probably works (A/B tested).

Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by black_puppydog on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:04AM (#30454159)
They don't "suck" at it. It's not in their interest.
Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by franga2000 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @12:56PM (#30457927)
> It's a shame that these big companies seem to suck at making usable websites.

The Reddit and Twitter web apps are actually great on mobile, but they lock you out after a few minutes. I used to use both all the time until three or so years ago when the constant app pushing made both unusable.

Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by MayeulC on Sunday February 27, 2022 @08:49AM (#30488385)
The websites are extremely slow to load on my phone (galaxy s4 with lineageos 17.1). Using midori in a private tab:

- Time to load a twitter link: 14s (20s to display a preview of the picture).

- Same link on a nitter instance: 5s, page fully loaded, with replies.

Also, less than half the page is dedicated to content, I have:

- a search bar

- log in/sign up

- Cookies notice

- "Twitter is better on the app" "Not Now/Switch to the app" (that one takes a lot of space).

All of the above keeps floating above the content, so I can only scroll through a tiny window. The content is lazy-loaded, which makes scrolling annoying. A lot of space is wasted with buttons that are only useful if you're logged in.

The experience is terrible on mobile, and it's mostly the same for reddit.