Re:Do not download the app, use the website
by troupo on Saturday July 26, 2025 @12:06PM
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> For a more elaborate analysis:
Neither of the links are "elaborate analyses". Those are part rants, part non-sequiturs, part half-truths
> All of those are issues that have already been fixed
Of course they haven't been fixed. You literally presented Twitter as an example of an excellent PWA. I happen to use it every day. Lol.
Just recently the top article on HN was people trying to debug why the absolutely primitive animation was eating 60% CPU and 25% GPU on a supercomputer: https://www.granola.ai/blog/dont-animate-height
> Google is the primary champion of PWAs, they have a vested interest in its success.
And still your example of a great PWA is Twitter.
It's definitely not Apple who is to blame for the state of PWAs
Neither of the links are "elaborate analyses". Those are part rants, part non-sequiturs, part half-truths
> All of those are issues that have already been fixed
Of course they haven't been fixed. You literally presented Twitter as an example of an excellent PWA. I happen to use it every day. Lol.
Just recently the top article on HN was people trying to debug why the absolutely primitive animation was eating 60% CPU and 25% GPU on a supercomputer: https://www.granola.ai/blog/dont-animate-height
> Google is the primary champion of PWAs, they have a vested interest in its success.
And still your example of a great PWA is Twitter.
It's definitely not Apple who is to blame for the state of PWAs