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Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by Swizec on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:19PM (#36372869)
Unlike us HackerNews weirdos, most people don’t really do websites on their phone all that much. They text a lot tho.

The other day my mom said she can’t figure out ChatGPT because she made an account but there’s no icon on her desktop or phone and she doesn’t understand where it went.

Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by XCSme on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:30PM (#36373002)
Did you suggest installing the PWA? Or it doesn't have one?
Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by 13th_yc_acct on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:54PM (#36373284)
Seriously? I thought everybody used their phone for their primary web browser. Only time i really use a browser is at work (or very occasionally while at home -- why walk across the room when a large part of the internet is in my back pocket?)
Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by Swizec on Saturday June 17, 2023 @03:26PM (#36373658)
From what I’ve seen normies browse the internet, not the web. Partially because that’s what companies encourage.

Links are for sharing only and even that is primarily for those annoying friends who aren’t on the app you’re using. My girlfriend for example can go hours without ever leaving instagram or tiktok. If the content isn’t natively in there, it doesn’t exist.

And nobody ever clicks links I send them. Have had to start texting (iMessage) screenshots of articles and images or they just get ignored lol

When I publish an article, most readers read it because it lands inside their email app. Short email with link? Nobody clicks that. Long email you can read without leaving gets way more engagement.

Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by scarface_74 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @11:38PM (#36377084)
Even the quickest Google search would disprove your anecdotes
Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by Swizec on Saturday June 17, 2023 @11:46PM (#36377120)
Try it. Native content gets way higher engagement than a link out.

Think about it this way: would you have read this comment if I posted it on my site and pasted a link in this textbook instead of typing it out? Would you really?

Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by 6510 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @03:58PM (#36373969)
Then you wanted to add the website icon to their iphone but it was intentionally made to complicated to remember how to do it. The onlookers make the computers are hard facial expression. You explain it was intentional. They think you are just not very good with computers.
Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by scarface_74 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @11:36PM (#36377077)
Two thirds of all web traffic is mobile.

https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/mobile-internet-traffic

85% of all adults in the US use smart phones

https://www.zippia.com/advice/us-smartphone-industry-statist....

Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by Swizec on Saturday June 17, 2023 @11:42PM (#36377103)
Yes I know. My point is that people don’t really “go to websites” as their primary mode of interacting with their mobile devices.

Btw, your link uses internet and web interchangeably so it’s hard to say whether it agrees with me or not. My point was that people use the internet [way] more than the web.