I don't get this. If you want it to be narrower, make your browser window narrower. And by the way, you don't need an extension for the rest of the stuff, either. Wikipedia already supports per-user custom styling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:User_style
Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
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Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
#112There's also Wike[0], a fantastic little native Wikipedia browser for everyone out there on Linux.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
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I agree with you except the one pain point that Wikipedia still continues to use "m.*" sub-domains for displaying mobile content. I know most people exclusively use mobile these days but I use desktop browsers for reading more than 60% of the time and its really annoying to click on a Wikipedia link on HN/Reddit and having it open the mobile site on desktop. It's OK to use m.* subdomains instead of reactive design bu…
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It's kinda strange that you think someone who is on a phone copying a link and sharing it with someone who is not on a phone, is the latter person "specifically ask[ing]" for the mobile page.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
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This isn't so bad but consider new Reddit vs. old Reddit. If "new" were to become the only way to access Reddit, I would probably abandon it.
It is really annoying to be shown the new site so I just use mobile apps to read it now.
I love my mobile app as well (RIF), but do you know about old.reddit.com? Still works great with RES, I couldn't imagine Reddit on the desktop any other way
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
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Text becomes less readable at large widths. I sometimes use the mobile Wikipedia on desktop for that reason, especially on ultrawide monitors.
Just... don't make the browser window 34 inches across?
In my case this is an annoying fix because then I have to resize the browser window all the time. As well as the default window manager on Windows not having features to center a window or shrinking/expanding window size to fit the desired max line width.
I also find the desktop behind the browser window distracting.
Having said that; Reader mode solves most of the above issues.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
#116Please never ever use system-ui in your CSS. A classic article about why: https://infinnie.github.io/blog/2017/systemui.html In this particular case, it totally ruined the fonts of Wikipedia for East-Asian (CJK) Windows users. Just in case the article itself isn't convincing enough, below is a list of some websites that have tried "system-ui" and then reverted it semi-immediately: Facebook/bootstrap, GitHub, Twitter,…
Isnt the right answer for Microsoft or users to fix their system font? Why would east Asian users have a crappy system font selected in their OS?
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
#117The images look nice. You might consider a demo page that mimics the output of the extension though, with some amount of interaction. It's difficult to tell what it's really like from an image.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
#118It's a bit rough[0] at ultrawide resolutions, but then again what isn't?
There's also a small padding issue[1] next to the sidebar when the column width is set high.
Otherwise it looks pretty good.
[0]: https://jagger.co/downloads/modern-wiki-wide.png [1]: https://jagger.co/downloads/modern-wiki-padding.png
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
#119I hate to be the contrarian, but I'm confused by the positive remarks here. I find the interface looks like it was trying to force mobile design principles onto a desktop view. A lot of space seems wasted here and I can view less content at once. I don't find this useful personally.
You can find it not useful personally but still leave a positive comment for the creator who is sharing something they made with the community. "Subsidize what you want more of, tax what you want less of". If you want people to share their creations, be more encouraging/positive. If you don't want people to share their creations, be more critical/negative.
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Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with you except the one pain point that Wikipedia still continues to use "m.*" sub-domains for displaying mobile content. I know most people exclusively use mobile these days but I use desktop browsers for reading more than 60% of the time and its really annoying to click on a Wikipedia link on HN/Reddit and having it open the mobile site on desktop. It's OK to use m.* subdomains instead of reactive design bu…
> It's OK to use m.* subdomains instead of reactive design but there should at least be redirects to the correct subdomains. I agree, although in the case of Wikipedia the "mobile" design is actually the one that is responsive. I want the "mobile" design on all browsers including my desktop. I believe you can actually set your default theme if you're logged into Wikipedia, but I don't know if their cookies eventually…
I might be ok with "the mobile reactive version everywhere" if it didn't also lack a bunch of features. Not being able to easily get to the talk page to contextualize what you're reading makes the mobile site very frustrating.