Apps are always nice, but lots of mobile websites, including the kbin one, are entirely functional as an app. In your browser you can just make a shortcut to them, and they’ll appear on your home screen and act as an app.

In technical terms these are Progressive Web Apps, but it means you don’t need to wait for someone to write an app (or kbin to have a good API for doing so) to use it like an app on your phone.

In Firefox it looks like this. Open the website, in the menu hit Install, drag the icon to your desktop. When you click on it it’ll open the site like it’s a standalone app.

Chrome is exactly the same, but the menu button is “Install App” instead.

  • Usernameblankface
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    101 year ago

    I’ve had this set up for a while. It’s alright.

    Some comments run off the right side of the screen, is there a setting that fixes this?

      • JumpyGame
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        51 year ago

        I tried a few different browser and Samsung Internet seems to work the best.

    • Rashnet
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      31 year ago

      Mine was doing that and I realized my font size setting in Android setting was set one size bigger than the middle mark. I moved it one tick to the left and it all fits now.