[epiceric]

I think they are going to avoid any web mobile changes while they are building and promoting their mobile app, which is still in beta.

And honestly, this official app personally feels that it's even worse to navigate. Hard to navigate to your most recent repos, reading/following issues/PRs is terrible (a good 1/6th of my screen is covered by a tab in the bottom corner that I accidentally open a lot of the time when scrolling), no CI information, can't differentiate what's new and old discussion when opening a notification, can't check other branches, can't generate tokens (very useful when commiting from someone else's machine if you have 2FA), and in general it prioritizes elements without a clear reason, like the "subscribe"/"unsubscribe" button for repos.

I currently still prefer the Fasthub app for now. It still doesn't have all features above or from the web version, and it's not updated often since the app is being refactored entirely, but it's open source and it has a decent UI/UX. Definitely better than the beta official app.

[zeveb]

> I think they are going to avoid any web mobile changes while they are building and promoting their mobile app, which is still in beta.

In theory, I would prefer a native mobile app to a web page, for a number of reasons. First of all, a web page is ideally static, with no JavaScript and no interactivity other than POST submission — a native app provides a developer the opportunity to add behaviour and interactivity appropriately. Second, a native app can be customised to the particular needs of working on a mobile device.

But in practice I avoid apps like the plague. I no longer trust that Android will properly shield one app's data from other apps: for all I know the GitHub app will upload all of my photos and text files to Microsoft for analysis. And then so many mobile apps aren't even native mobile: they are just wrapped web pages, in which case one gets the worst of both worlds: a potentially-insecure app which can break the sandbox, and a non-native web-page interface.

I used to be really excited about smart phones, but now all I really want is something with a web browser, phone calls, Signal and offline maps.

[Aissen]

I upvoted you, but your comment is a bit misguided re: Android, especially for HN:

- if an app has access to your photos and you didn't approve so, it's a bug. Even worse, it's a security issue and you could probably collect a nice $10k to $30k bounty.

- apps that are just web pages are bad, yes but not for the reasons you underlined.

- anything that breaks the sandbox is a security issue. Nowadays it's pretty rare, too.

- if an app asks for access to your files and can't work without it, it's a badly designed app and you'd be right to complain. IMHO this is an issue that should be addressed at two levels: 1/ the OS should be able to generate fake data to let old apps work. 2/ any newly released app that tries to work around this should be banned from stores.