The coolest new Hexbear feature is the INSTALL HEXBEAR pop-up that sits on top of my inbox (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

xi-gun-1 xi-gun-2 Install Hexbear or you're a revisionist

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Why would I need a separate program to look at a website

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a link to Hexbear that opens in the browser from an icon on your homescreen, all browsers have this (like on Firefox for me in the pic below). Idk why your browser is asking you to do it though, lol

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

It's a PWA. On Android it's just a bookmark to the website in Chrome but with some extra features. I use Mastodon that way, it's way better than any of the apps

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Pwah...?

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[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Progressive Web Application. As I said, a website bookmark with extra dipping sauces that make it feel like an app (furthermore, many "full" apps are just embedded webviews anyway)

[-] glans@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

But it has less free range access to the OS than a regular which is good because it prevents scooping up so much data and is generally more controllable.