Honest question: Why does the Bluesky app need its own in-app browser in the first place? What's the point?
2 1Samuel
@samuel.fm
its annoying to switch to safari. Its optional tho
1 3JamesDBartlett3No, I mean, why does it need to even have an in-app browser in the first place? Why can't links just open in the browser like they do in literally every other instance?
2 1SamuelI find it annoying to context-switch to a different app. also we showed this dialog the first time you pressed a link in the app, so if you don't like it then it's on you lol
2 2 5JamesDBartlett3Why do you assume that I don't know how to use the app settings or read instructions? Of course I have the in-app browser disabled for myself. I was asking a question about UI/UX design, not asking for tech support.
1JamesDBartlett3The fact that you personally find "context switching" between the Bluesky app and your browser "annoying" is unconvincing to me as a justification for the feature. I was asking because I thought there might have been some actual UI/UX research on the subject that influenced the decision.
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jackFor people on older phones (like me) it's MUCH quicker loading a single page, rather than opening Safari (for example) with like 50 tabs open that it has to load... especially for a quick look at something. but there's always a button to open in browser anyways.
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Martin LaurentThe problem is more that it (logically) opens a new tab that you have to think about closing before switching back or else you end up with hundreds of open tabs (that's my case).
1 3JamesDBartlett3My browser (Firefox) automatically closes the tab when I use the native Android "back" navigation function to return to Bluesky, but if I want to keep the tab open for later, I can use the app switcher instead.
1JamesDBartlett3Wait... Safari automatically loads *all* of your tabs into RAM when it opens, rather than only loading each tab if/when you switch to it? Jeeeez, no wonder why y'all don't like using Safari. Maybe you should try Firefox. It only loads tabs into RAM when you actually view them.
1 1jacknot actually sure, but i can tell that safari is VERY slow, e.g. switching between tabs (or going into that view which shows them all) it takes a few seconds to load at times. i am running an iPhone SE (2020) on iOS 18 though..
1JamesDBartlett3WTF, 2020 isn't even that long ago! What on earth is Apple doing with iOS that you can't run Safari smoothly on an iPhone that's not even old enough for kindergarten? Safari ran as smooth as butter on my iPhone 3GS back in like 2009, FFS.
1jackwell I use it a lot, the BH is pretty low. like 80%. on my Mac (mini, base model, 2023) Safari is blazing fast.
even at the time, the SE was a budget device for like £400, which had the same specs as the 11 (2019) but worse camera and no Face ID
1JamesDBartlett3Device usage frequency and battery health should have no bearing whatsoever on app performance, especially native apps like Safari. It's Apple software, running in an Apple operating system, on Apple hardware. They control the entire tech stack from top to bottom. It should not be slow, ever.
1jackNo, usage of a device over many years and heavy use will slow it down. I'm sure if I factory reset it and re-set it up it'd be faster. For quite a bit at least. If you want another example of this, Microsoft Edge on Windows is HORRIBLE from my experience... Safari is much faster