Was no one else using Discord as a progressive web app, striking the best balance between resource footprint, no additional local apps on their device, still preserving their native UI, etc?
Going by me and my friends, no.
> striking the best balance between resource footprint
If this is the best balance possible, then that balance is horrible. Having to pull along a whole browser is a massive ball and chain on any program that I wish I could cut off anywhere I see it.
> no additional local apps on their device
This isn't an advantage for my use cases, nor any of my friends apparently.
> still preserving their native UI
As in preserving Discord's or your OS's UI?
I don't care about the former. I'd use DiscordMessenger[1] if it was mostly feature complete and Discord didn't ban third-party clients.
The latter isn't really preserved in any meaningful opinion by shoving it into a browser. The difference in UX post-install between a PWA and a seperate browser window (or a seperate app) is zero to me. It's still not native.
Electron apps do this. PWAs do not because you are already running the browser.
> > no additional local apps on their device > This isn't an advantage for my use cases,
It objectively is, because (a) you don't have to run Electron next to a browser (b) your Electron app lags behind in security fixes compared to Chrome or whatever you use to browse, and (c) PWAs have a much stricter permission/capability model than native apps, so you can run PWAs from publishers you don't trust that much.
Sometimes, I might actually not be running the browser. And even if I am, a native app is still better.
> you don't have to run Electron next to a browser
I don't quite see the point you're making here?
> your Electron app lags behind in security fixes compared to Chrome or whatever you use to browse
Any app I download is sandboxed to the point I don't see this as a benefit of any magnitude.
Not to mention I might want the option of not updating (although I think this is an option with PWAs nowadays, although I've never actually tried).
> PWAs have a much stricter permission/capability model than native apps
Ditto.
> so you can run PWAs from publishers you don't trust that much.
I don't want to do that in the first place.
Native apps can do all those things better already. Can we please just have native apps instead?
With a native app, which I still welcome for perf/mem reasons, I'll have to configure opensnitch (or smth of the sort) to take care of the outgoing telemetry calls... A system-wide uBO would be a nice to have!