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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    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.

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      1 year ago

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

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      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.

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      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

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

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          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

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            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.

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                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.

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      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.

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    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.