A government app being built like b2c is exactly the problem

I'm sure that HN's preferred app would be <5MB, and has zero third party SDKs or telemetry, but half a dozen SDKs and third party domains is basically most mass market apps these days. Is it bad? Yes, but the whitehouse isn't being egregiously bad, but "whitehouse app is bad, just like most other apps" isn't going to get clicks.

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abustamam 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"everything else sucks too" is not a great defense for the US govt.

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gruez 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If only. It would be a far better state of of affairs if the US government sucks like every other first world country. No other first country are waging war in the middle east, having paramilitary forces terrorize residents, or are undergoing a partial government shutdown.

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charcircuit 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just because an app embeds YouTube instead of creating their own video hosting solution that does not mean that does not mean that the app sucks.

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abustamam 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I didn't mention anything about YouTube.

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charcircuit 6 hours ago | parent [-]

This thread is about how there are too many requests to third parties for the app. Half of them are for YouTube.

	▲	abustamam an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Even if we eliminate the YouTube half it's still too many.

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aplummer 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

See gov.uk for a good example

	▲	ozlikethewizard 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For all our faults I am geniunely impressed by gov.uk. its not pretty, its not particularly fast, and its certainly not flashly, but I've never once not been able to find what I needed or have a flow not work.

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SV_BubbleTime 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh, sorry you missed Exlir and WASM, and rust and programming socks of course. Half credit.