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Apps are always nice, but lots of mobile websites, including the kbin one, are entirely functional as an app. In your browser you can just make a shortcut to them, and they'll appear on your home screen and act as an app.

In technical terms these are Progressive Web Apps, but it means you don't need to wait for someone to write an app (or kbin to have a good API for doing so) to use it like an app on your phone.

In Firefox it looks like this. Open the website, in the menu hit Install, drag the icon to your desktop. When you click on it it'll open the site like it's a standalone app.

Chrome is exactly the same, but the menu button is "Install App" instead.

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

This is what I'm using and it's a decent experience, especially since you can tweak things to your liking.

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

Yeah even with the PWA shortcut you can still use extensions and stuff on it. I had to go back to regular firefox and turn off dark reader for kbin, since it's already a dark theme and it was removing the green color from upvotes

[–] OonTaaKissa@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

lol I didn't realize it was dark reader I just thought that upvotes were bugged on mobile :D thanks for pointing that out, now I can actually see what I have upvoted

[–] chamim@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I had to do the same thing after I realized how different the website looks on mobile versus desktop. For something still in early beta, kbin is very well put together.