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Looks cool, but using it from another mobile device is very slow. Or maybe it's latency to the servers hosting the emulators, I'm not sure. Is there a way to see the ping time?

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Yes it works on mobile but is a bit slower, we want to continue to improve performance there. It's reasonable on a Pixel 6 pro, I'm curious which phone are you using? We'll look into the ping time.

It's a Samsung Galaxy A52s, I tried Firefox and Chrome.

Also used a TCP ping app to check what seems to be the demo server - node1.wolfia.com? Average was around 160ms, ranging from 70 to 300ish, so I guess that was the real issue!

I'm located in UK and using a 4G network. Might try it again tomorrow from work and see how it compares.

Ah yeah that's probably why, our servers are only on the west coast for now, we'll add more locations in the future.

FWIW the demo runs really well in my pixel 4a, although some of the text on the page covers up the navbar. Love how low friction it is though!

Agreed, I'm impressed by just clicking a link and seeing the app there to use, no messing around. Good stuff.

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