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.
- 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.