Subj : Re: Vibes
To   : Vk3jed
From : boraxman
Date : Thu Jan 27 2022 22:17:24

 Vk> I hate a lot of web apps.  They work, but there's always something a
 Vk> little "clunky" about using them, whether that be navigation or some
 Vk> other aspect.  Even more so for apps that require notifications.  Web
 Vk> notifications seem a bit less flexible than app specific ones.
 Vk> 

It is the icons that you can't figure out what they do, the small fidgety widgets, the small text boxes you get to enter text, without any of the niceties that Emacs of Vim gives you, clutter, latency.  Another annoying trend is having poor distinction between clickable and non clickable elements, constantly changing UI paradigms based on the latest brain fart from silicon valley.

 Vk> And of course, a modern web browser is a very heavyweight client, and I
 Vk> often find web performance is sluggish.  While they look similar, I find
 Vk> using the dedicated Element client for Matrix much faster and smoother
 Vk> in general than the web based Element.
 Vk> 
 Vk> And some web interfaces are getting unusable *cough* Facebook *cough*,
 Vk> because they're too bloated and sluggish. ;)

Try m.facebook.com on desktop, if you want a faster experience, if you use it that is.  It is the mobile site, but you can load it on desktop and it does run much, much faster.

Using web browsers to transmit apps over the internet is like using circus elephants to send mail.

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