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Personally, I really enjoy the new look and design/UX choices.
Please, since someone from wikipedia is probably reading this: Keep the JavaScript to a minimum. The plans aren't clear to me, but given what sites like reddit/etc have done during their "updates" the new UI's are terrible on anything that isn't a top of the line device with a screaming fast internet connection. Wikipedia (and a few other "older" sites) is such a pleasure to use as is, don't ruin it. AKA round-trippi…
Most of the times, these dynamic things on web pages and elsewhere mispredict what I actually want.
No Google, I did not want to zoom in on the map that you automatically did for me. Rather I unzoomed back and you automatically zoomed back in.
No scroll bars, I don't want you to disappear or even thin down automatically.
I personally don't like infinite scrolling as a solution either as it messes up scroll bar operation.
And I want strictly none of the above if when clicking 'back', you don't take me to the exact same view I was on before, without the elements of page jumping for a few seconds.
No my laptop and phone, I do not want you to wake up when I disconnect power, and especially so when I had just put you to sleep!
Glad that Wikipedia is planning to show and hide the side panel on user instruction/click. Please keep it that way.
If someone asked me to critique the UX of Wikipedia, the first two things I’d point out would be that I almost never use the left hand side bar (and I have a feel almost no one does) and that when paragraphs are that wide they become harder to read (especially when they snake around floated images). Not changing for 10 years, watching as some trends fade and others become law-of-the-land, and then making two changes…
>and that when paragraphs are that wide they become harder to read Yes, reading Wikipedia on a 27” iMac is comical. Anything larger than 1000px wide is entering eye gymnastics territory. Ideally it should be around 600/700
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They already adjust the list by the frequency you visit them. They don't by default show all 100+ language links anymore for a while.
Right, I did not like this change at all... I use the langlinks across many languages, way more so than the average user so my use case is different.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Se...
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I second using Wikipedia for translating, most of the time is better than using a translator or using a dictionary and sometimes is the only option for more technical or specific terms. I don't use it for comparing between languages much because I'm bilingual and my native tongue Wikipedia is not that big, but sometimes is really interesting to see the different perspectives.
Absolutely, the only time I've ever used the sidebar is for language change, but with this change they are moving that to a more accessible place (Which is nice), but it also means the sidebar is now truly useless :)
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Even 8chan had some level of editorial judgement, however small it was. It was there.
The Admin has been very active in preserving QAnon's presence on the board. Potentially to the point of hijacking the QAnon tripcodes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon#Identity_of_%22Q%22
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I'm already resigned to the fact that once old.reddit.com goes away I'm not going to be spending any more time on Reddit. Maybe that'll be a good thing.
"reddit is fun" on Android is a great app for it. Staying away from reddit more is good for you, too.
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Who does that? I think most people browse the web with many tabs open at once, and switch between them constantly. I don't think it should be on the user to resize their browser viewport every time they switch tabs to maintain a comfortable measure. That's the website's responsibility.
every time they switch tabs The whole idea is that when you have the window at a comfortable width, the content in all your other tabs should also be.
