I’ve been slowly pivoting toward Perplexity.AI as the search engine. It basically does what I do, search + find the resources and summarize it but it is automatic with Perplexity.AI.

I rather pay them 20$ because that is saving me time a lot (and time is money in my case). Kagi’s search is okay but I can get nearly the same by using ublocklist on Bing or DDG for my use case.

Hopefully, that will not be the case as there is a anti-trust lawsuit possibly coming from DoJ and congress may pass a similar law like DMA. However, the chances are low anything will happen due the upcoming US elections. 😔

Many people follow specific channels and only look at content from them, not random bullshit teenager videos that show up in the random/new/trending pages. If you only look at these contents, then yes, you’re going to get those bullshit annoying videos.

It’s the same with Reddit, Lemmy, and others, people follow the specific channels they want and avoid the trending/random/new stuff.

For an example, I follow Digital Foundry channel for their detailed analysis/reviews, The SciShow, Sorted Foods, and so on. I click my subscriptions on youtube and it only shows these high quality content for me. Our family spend hours on these contents. They’re not available anywhere else.

Especially since they can use any keyboard, like a mechanical keyboard that will feel much better than the laptops.

Given that an iPad is still a full-screen app OS, it may be easier for them to focus mainly on writing by using a dedicated writing app.

However, like many has said, involve your wife, let them pick.

It is not entirely data farming, a lot of this is due to use of heavy assets like fonts, frameworks, images, videos, etc. A lot of that is downloaded as part of loading the site initially and then the browser has to render/compute the site’s use of JavaScript, CSS, etc.

Fonts and some JS assets are cached by the browsers and CDN to try to minimize redownloading it but it doesn’t change the fact that average websites today are much heavier than it was back in 90s.

See how fast this site loads: https://text.npr.org/

Or https://tildes.net/ compared to Reddit.

When tapping on an image to view it full screen, the app’s sidebar for some odd reason does a full screen mode and then animate back into regular mode when dismissing the video.

Let me know if you wish me to upload a video.

FYI: This happened when I turned of the button labels.

I also recommend including the steps on how to actually pay for IAP issue as well in case someone did it first via TestFlight and thought it was already paid.

I couldn’t figure out how to fix this until I saw one of the posts that we need to remove the app entirely and not overwrite the app.

You may want to extend the sale if possible for the lifetime discount.

Support undo + redo history in the comment box (CMD+Z and CMD+SHIFT+Z).

Buttons text doesn’t seem to be horizontally-aligned to its button (see Home in the screenshot, looks higher than it should be) and the buttons doesn’t seem to be spaced out evenly.

J/K, up/down arrow keys for navigating between comments.

Left/right for collapsing and expanding comments.

Are there plans to support shortcuts?

Would love to see the following ones first.

CMD+N for creating a new post. CMD+Enter for submitting the post. CMD+shift+F for global search. CMD+F for searching the current view.

If you’re viewing a community and tap on Home or double-tap it, it doesn’t redirect you to Home.

I shared one in a separate post here: https://lemm.ee/post/4483070

See https://alexandrite.app/ for an inspiration.

For the larger iPads, it would be nice if we can get two columns.

The left column is the posts view and tapping on a post opens up in the right with the post on top and comments under it.