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You'd have to ask @velocio for stats on the mobile/desktop split of web traffic but I can tell you the traffic from the mobile app would barely register. Mostly because the app has only been available for 2 months while the web version has been running for 16 years or so.
I track little to nothing, I have no stats... but I am wondering whether I can track stats, it will require some crazy thing as I'd need to track the client for the OAuth, and then the access_tokens issued, and from that then correlate those access_tokens to requests and usage.
You asked: would the app be able to stand alone from Microcosm? Not sure I fully understand the question, but the answer is almost certainly not. The app is just a very thin client, and the Microcosm back end does all the heavy lifting.
I think the answer is yes... because Microcosm is implemented as two things... an API that does 95% of heavy lifting, and a web app that is merely an API client that does 5% of the heavy lifting... and there is nothing that this website can do that the mobile client couldn't do, because the website is just an API client.
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You'd have to ask @velocio for stats on the mobile/desktop split of web traffic but I can tell you the traffic from the mobile app would barely register. Mostly because the app has only been available for 2 months while the web version has been running for 16 years or so.
Just to be clear: the mobile app is not an official app. It's just a fun project I wanted to do, and was able to do because Microcosm has a good API.
I built the app with Flutter, which is a cross-platform framework, so although I've only released an Android version, it wouldn't be too much work to get an iOS version published too.
You asked: would the app be able to stand alone from Microcosm? Not sure I fully understand the question, but the answer is almost certainly not. The app is just a very thin client, and the Microcosm back end does all the heavy lifting.
If you're interested in taking a look at the mobile app, I think the main pain-point right now is the "following" page. There's some distracting and useless clutter, and more importantly it's missing information that's available on the web version of the same page. I'd like to reorganise the information on the "following" page, but I'm somewhat constrained by the API for the moment.
All the code (for the mobile app, as well as microcosm) is open source, so you can download it all make any changes you like. Or if you just want to throw some ideas and figma designs around, that would be cool too.
I'm trying to adhere to material design guidelines and stock components as much as possible, mostly for capacity reasons.