cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1005198
I would assume it is, since the server only needs to serve the API calls and not the whole web site code?
If so, getting people to use the apps could help with the current wave of users a little.
Nope. The web ui uses something called service worker which caches the html, css and js files on your device and only fetches updates from time to time.
Is that why my browser now takes 100MB more space that can’t be deleted by clearing cache…? I hate that.
Possibly? No idea how much of the data is from service worker cache. Also I’m not sure whether clearing the cache really skips service worker’s cache, my gut feeling would be that it’s purged as well.
What’s the best Lemmy app? Has Christian (Apollo) made one yet?
Would be nice if Apollo would become open-source and then we could modify it to work with the fediverse. Maybe we could have a crowdfunding to pay back Christian’s work and make it opensource.
https://wefwef.app/ is an Apollo look alike
Can vouch for wefwef. Having only used it for a few hours this morning, the improvement over the basic web interface is lovely.
no, he doesn’t intend to but check out wefwef.app, memmy, or mlem.
In general the database queries themselves are the most expensive. That and maybe the ActivityPub messages. The HTML/Javascript content from the browser should be nothing in comparison, especially since it’s static. So in the end, it shouldn’t matter if you’re using a mobile client or a browser, assuming both are optimized.
That sounds perfectly logical, but for some reason the site through a web browser has been significantly slower than in an app like Jebora for me.
