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I was just prompted that a PWA was available for kbin. I now have it installed, really great to see this. IMO it is a great stopgap until native apps are available.

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[–] recently_coco@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep! I'm using it now! Good so far. Only complaint as of now is that I can't keep it from auto-rotating for some reason.

[–] 34@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I can confirm, didn't notice it until your comment. Need to submit a big report somewhere.

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

On iPhone this doesn't happen for me when I lock the screen from the control center. Locking it at the phone level stops auto-rotation completely.

[–] SnowboardBum@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Good to know. Thanks

[–] tunetardis@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] 34@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

For Chrome on Android the "Add to Home screen" menu option was is now "Install App" which will put an icon for/kbin in the app drawer and the app opens in a dedicated browser window sperate from chrome and its tabs.

[–] nightauthor@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think its just the 'add to homescreen' option in the browser that makes a shortcut to open the website in a dedicated browser window on your phone.

If so, my issue with the PWA is that I cant get it to default to the subscribed feed, I always have to manually navigate to /sub

[–] 34@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Default feed is set in your profile. Click on your username, click settings, change Homepage to Subscribed, then click on save to apply setting.

[–] nightauthor@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that changes what happens when I click on the logo, but not what loads when navigating to “kbin.social” and the PWA seems to only load “kbin.social” no way to get /sub as a pwa

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

maybe you can try deleting the PWA and then installing it again, but from the /sub URL? Because I went to kbin.social/ (the root) and installed the PWA from there and I figure that's why it's just going to kbin.social/ every time.

[–] nightauthor@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I tried that already. no matter what page I'm on it does kbin.social

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I guess it must be built into the PWA somehow which specific web page it will land on.

I'm holding hope that a 3rd party kbin app will be available soon. I'll probably use both just because but I think there are somethings that can be done better in a native app, especially in terms of customization.

[–] tunetardis@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oh ok thanks!

On iOS, press the ‘share’ button (box with an arrow coming out the top) and look for ‘add to home screen +’

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I really like the PWA - I was able to install it on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 from 2012! Not too many apps can be installed on that phone nowadays. Alas, I can't get it onto my equally ancient iPhone 5 - that one just opens a new tab in Safari.