People always ask what apps to use for mastodon but frankly the progressive web app is already glorious on it's own
@fenwick67 It's ok for a webinterface but webinterfaces generally provide the worst UX for applications.
Their question is *absolutely* right and the sad answer is, there are a few ok-ish ones for iOS and Android phones but none for computers.
Mastodon absolutely needs good native GUI applications to succeed.
For comparison, the people really active on the birdsite *all* use native applications and not a webinterface.
https://github.com/h3poteto/whalebird-desktop already has basic functionality
I'm not an Electron fan either, but for me it's okay since I understand this person is taking the time to make it and it just works (though a bit far from feature complete yet)
@danipozo @fenwick67 Electron… an outdated version of Chrome for running… a single website… Sorry, Electron things are not native clients. Anyone who thinks that Electron is even remotely comparable to a native application has probably never used a really good client application to understand that there is a *vast* difference in user experience.
I'll have a look at it regardless, can't be worse UX than the Go “Client”. :-) I only have 16GB of RAM in my Laptop though…