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From how I read it, this reduces the probability that the data gets deleted due to low disk space / garbage collection:

    Persistent storage can help protect
    critical data from eviction, and
    educe the chance of data loss.

Are you sure this keeps the data when the user deletes their browser data? To me it sounds like it does not:

    Persistent storage is not deleted by the browser,
    even if storage is running low. It will only be
    deleted if the user chooses to remove it via
    their site settings.

Keeping the user logged in is not the issue. A PWA can inject a unique ID into the installation in various ways.

The problem is the data. Imagine a text editor where all your text documents are gone after you cleared the data of a different app, the browser.

I wrote a fitness app as a PWA some time ago and its pretty annoying to download all the instruction videos again every time you clear your "browser data". Plus all infos about which exercises you did and when is gone for good of course.

Can you elaborate why it could be a good thing for users?

Not being able to reliably store data on the device means that PWAs have to send the users data over the internet and store it on an external server. I would think users rather do not like that.

I am only talking about installed PWAs here. Of course not every website should be able to avoid having its cookies deleted.

The main problem I see in PWAs these days is that they cannot permanently store data on the device. As soon as the user deletes their "browser data", all the data of the PWAs on the device is lost too.

If PWAs would get their own permanent storage like other apps, it would be a huge step forward.

How would that work?

Just exchanged the charger .. the hanging still occurs.

I will try that. At first I would like to see if I can find the problem. I would have thought that when the SD card is not responding, it would show up as "wa" in top and "%util" in iostat -x. But both are zero for the next output after a freeze.

My PI is too cool. It freezes.

I have playing with a PI Zero W over the last weeks. At first everything worked as expected.

But now it developed some strange "hangings" I cannot explain. It kinda randomly freezes in time for a few minutes every now and then.

Sometimes it takes several minutes to ssh into it. Sometimes, the terminal just freezes for several minutes.

Neither top nor iostat seem to show any elevated activity during these periods. Since they hang throughout the freeze, its a bit hard to say though.

The strangest thing: Pings to the PI always come back fast. So its probably not that the hardware really freezes completely.

Ok, great. Here comes more feedback :)

Since I did not save my password when signing up, I proceeded to set an email. Got a confirmation email and clicked the link in it.

Then signed out and clicked the "Set a new password" link.

But it does not work. I always get the message "Failed to send email: This email address was not found".

I think someone needs to look into the onboarding process. My experience so far:

1: Clicked on "Try Now".

2: Was greeted with a blob of text. Spotted "The easiest way to try Matrix is to use the Riot Web ...".

3: Clicked on "Riot Web" because that is a link.

4: Got transferred to a different website with a lot of buttons on it.

5: Clicked on the green "Get started button"

6: Got transferred to another page with a bunch of buttons on it

7: Clicked on "Browser"

8: A new window with a "Sign in" and a "Create Account" button opened

9: Clicked on "Create account"

10: Entered a username and password

11: Got asked to do the Google Captcha

12: Had to select 4 tiles with traffic lights and cklick next

13: Was told to select stairs.

14: Since there were no stairs, I clicked "Skip"

15: Had to select 7 tiles with fire hidrants and click next

16: Had to select 4 tiles with traffic lights and click next

17: Had to select 3 tiles with traffic lights and click next

18: Had to accept terms an conditions and click "accept"

19: Had to enter a recovery passphrase.

20: Had to confirm my recovery passphrase.

21: Was forced to click a "copy" button to copy the recovery passphrase.

22: Had to click "continue"

23: Staring at a spinner for a while.

24: Was prompted with an "OK" button. Clicked it.

25: Was prompted with a "Welcome to Riot" page with different options.

26: Clicked "Explore public rooms".

27: Clicked on the first one.

28: Had to look at a spinner for a while with "Joining room" next to it.

29: Still looking at the spinner ...

30: Spinner is still spinning ... will take the time to post this to HN.

Update:

31: Back to the Matrix window. Hurray! I'm in a channel. Typing "Hello" and enter. It seems to work.

I wonder if it would be an option to shortcut these 31 steps into just one and throw everyone who clicks "Try Now" into a "Welcome to Matrix" channel.