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		bhaak 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones a... Spinners are a lie. Nowadays, you hardly encounter a spinner that actually shows the progress of the action you started. For this reason, they are mostly useless. Even worse than useless if errors aren't even propagated to the user.

nicoburns 12 months ago [–]

It's pretty useful to indicate "network requests are in progress". I agree they lose their value if you don't handle errors.

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