looks great for mobile, doesn't stretch to fill larger monitors, maybe set the viewport percentages properly? Also the existing mobile interface for wiki imho looks better, but of course doesn't have the dark mode options, that's easily changeable.
Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
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#262I love this OP, thank you for making it! I did have to turn off a custom theme I had set in my Wikipedia settings, perhaps that's something you can detect and warn for?
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#263I like having the table of contents on the left. I often have to scroll back to the top to look at the table of contents again.
The font size is rather large though: for many pages you have to scroll to see the full table of contents. Seeing the full table of contents at a glance is a critical feature for me.
I would use this extension if you could scale the table of contents like you can for the main text.
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
They don't need to force you to migrate, the new site pushes people into mindless meme sharing only, and completely altered the contents of the site already.
I've had to banish a good 40+ subreddits off my feed manually using RES to just deal with the politics spam.
And even then, browsing /r/popular is just awful. Elimination games. People blatantly asking for personal information from teenagers. "Tell me your favorite X and we will judge you" Dumb NSFW 'questions'. Repost bots for content from years ago. Misinformative titles. "Unpopular opinion" threads.
It's a mountain of trash to wade through to get any decent content.
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#265This looks great, going to play around with it when I get home.
Does it still present the fundraising banners?
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#266Wow, this is beautiful! Thanks for doing this. I would almost use this daily, except that there are a few things I noticed that would be good to improve (just one person's opinion — hope these are received in the intended spirit): - If the browser window is narrower than about 1024px, there are no margins around the body text and the text width slider has no effect. - As the browser window becomes narrower, the body…
Also it breaks IPA rendering for some reason. For example here [0] many of the diacritic marks (especially most of the less common ones) are off to the right.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
They don't need to force you to migrate, the new site pushes people into mindless meme sharing only, and completely altered the contents of the site already.
I agree, and I have already left using reddit. What's the alternative to some random content consumption (like reddit)? Like hacker news but for non-technology topics.
I can suggest wiby.me 's random button to discover new sites with modern opinions.
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#268I am one of those people who actually like Wikipedia the way it is. It's what I hoped the web to become. But i am sure there are people who will appreciate your effort. Thank you for your work.
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…
As one of the people who uses a mobile device only if I have no other choice (which is never), I definitely feel the pain of this.
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#269OP, thanks for making this, I bet it was fun to build. That being said, I want someone to do the opposite of what this does. Less chrome, less bytes over the wire, less predictive search, less "flatness?", less timely, more timeless .
> less timely, more timeless.
I'm not sure if this is a subtle reference,but one of the major competing skins for wikipedia is named timeless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?useskin=timeless (its often quite popular among people using phones who find the official mobile website frustrating)
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#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not at all a complimensult. I can appreciate the work of someone, if even I won't use it. I don't know how to put it otherwise.
You just say thanks for sharing and drop the other bit.
Well, I don't consider I've insulted someone by saying I like the way Wikipedia is.