Re:Don't Download Apps
by PaulHoule on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @05:54PM
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By the stopwatch it takes 3x longer for me to upload a photo to the Instagram web app than it does to Mastodon. Facebook's blue website works pretty well but the Instagram site comes across like something that was vibe coded in a weekend or maybe a straw man that was made to prove SPAs are bad. Contrast that to the Mastodon application produced by a basically unfunded application that's fast and reliable.
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Just hours ago I couldn't even copy-paste a description of a post I drafted in another app. Literally nothing happened when I tried to paste. No console errors, no feedback, nothing.
It was a bit of a longer one, but still far below Instagram's supposed character limit. The fact that they somehow broke copy-paste functionality really baffles me.
Yep. Either it’s actually that bad or it’s just purposefully hampered. Same end user experience either way.
Re:Don't Download Apps
by georgefrowny on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @06:17PM
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Surely at some point some team that writes this has to demo it and someone checks it. After however many years of it not working, surely that's strategic, not accidental.
It's such a pervasive pattern and somehow always in the direction: the app works better than the website. If there even is a website.
Sometimes it goes the other way, in fact enough it's a running gag that the banner that says "Download our app for a better experience" at sites like Reddit ought to have one of these