I tried looking at the reviews for a monitor, and when I clicked "see more reviews" I got redirected to a page asking me to login and to provide my mobile phone number (which I didn't do for privacy reasons).

On Instagram I was confused at everyone else mentioning Instagram stories because I only have the option of uploading pictures and videos. Then I found out that it's something you can only do if you use Instagram on a phone... I swear I've came across a few sites that wouldn't even let you sign up if you were using a PC

I only ever browse social media on a PC and that's the way it will always be. Sometimes I can't help but feel like desktop/computer users are becoming an afterthought. Anyone else have similar feelings? 🫠

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[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

On the flip side, applications now suck because everything is a shit web wrapper. Nobody wants to develop using native UI on desktop anymore.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

its the trend of everything being a service. organizations dont have on-prem data centers anymore, its all web services tied to other web services.

its all about that subscription revenue, per-process nickel-and-diming and super fast development cycles.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

But they already have APIs in a lot of cases, so just wire the application to the API? Why the random HTML/JavaScript trash?

By the way I’m a web application developer. I understand SaaS, infrastructure and all why it’s easier to wrap it all up but I don’t care. Why do application developers tolerate this?