What’s your guys general thought on how everything is web based now? For me, I don’t really like it. I would just rather have an actual program that runs. But I am merely a user, not a programmer.

  • jaykrown@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    People don’t like downloading things unless they absolutely have to. It immediately puts a weight against anyone using what you’ve created. With web based, there’s nothing to download, and it works on any platform that can run a browser.

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      17 hours ago

      While at the same time, this is just a ‘perception’ thing.
      The user is always downloading all the JS, just not really keeping it in a place they would look at and not having to click a “Download” button.

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        13 hours ago

        cheap interpretation. clearly the commenter meant download and install apps vs just visiting a website.