Nostr Web Client

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idsera

No, look at jumble.social nostr client. It's PWA and works amazing.

cc nostr:npub1syjmjy0dp62dhccq3g97fr87tngvpvzey08llyt6ul58m2zqpzps9wf6wl

ynniv 8mo ago 💬 1

It always starts off great. Then you realize that:

- landscape layout sucks

- app manifest caching is broken

- ... only on certain platforms

- people are stuck on an old version

- or they just want to use the app right now instead of updating

- or their connection was unstable on update and now they have half old and have new assets

- some basic API isn't available

- or is available but has different options than the normal API

- or different bugs

- and things behave differently when installed as a PWA vs a web page

- etc

This isn't a criticism of jumble.social as I haven't used it. I've long advocated for PWAs and web first, but... it's way harder than it needs to be

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idsera 8mo ago 💬 1

So test jumble.social. I'm sure you will love it.

idsera 8mo ago 💬 1

And if you find any problem, I'm sure Jumble developer nostr:npub1syjmjy0dp62dhccq3g97fr87tngvpvzey08llyt6ul58m2zqpzps9wf6wl is listening and will fix it.

ynniv 8mo ago

Definitely not criticizing any PWA. Maintaining them is hard work 🙏

Daniele 8mo ago 💬 1

It's harder cause the "market" pushed towards native apps for over a decade. Faster, more reliable, more control, more compliant, stores with policies.. It made sense.

But I can see a momentum for web and pwa. Not just interest from people like us. Also finally Mozilla is jumping back on working on it.

If we work on this all those problems are going to go away.

Just one example: cashu.me is definitely one of the best app i use and it's a PWA.

ynniv 8mo ago 💬 1

Hey, the first advocate of PWA was Steve Jobs. He didn't want there to be any App Store – just the web

Daniele 8mo ago

maybe he was, most likely others shared this view: it does not change what happened.