Samuel
Building an app is fascinating because you get to learn how people use their phones completely differently to the way you do. For example, people are desperate for share intent - something I use very rarely
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John ✦°
Not sure if it's the same use case - I *think* I mostly use share intent when I see articles I wanna to share to the timeline and I don't see the "quick share to social media" icons on the site (For Bsky anyways).
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Samuel
@samuel.fm
Yeah see I never press those buttons I just copy paste the url 100% of the time. I rarely if ever share directly to apps - maybe to WhatsApp to share a photo from Photos once in a while
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John ✦°
Oh, interesting. That's the flow I follow on desktop. On Mobile, I find it much more efficient to use the quick share. Rather than double-tapping the URL to copy it, get out of the browser, open the other app, tap post, and paste the URL.
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Tim
I always assumed those buttons would add tracking data in the querystring so copypasting the URL is just default behavior
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John ✦°
I would not say mostly. But more often than not, I find myself reading content on mobile and naturally wanting to share via using that medium.