It looks really neat. would love to learn more about how you approached it without missing or compromising any functionality.
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
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I usually shy away from "modern redesign" but this one feels rapidly valuable both in legibility and usability. The chasing left side TOC is really useful. The typography is slightly fancy without trying to be in your face. The search (kbd /) is nice too. I'd motivate the author to experiment with more stuff around accessing categories and hyperlinks in the page.
Yeah, I actually like the existing Wikipedia design, but I like what the author has done here - I see it more as a minor UI evolution, with some additional conveniences. I like it!
I too like wikipedia current status a lot, and i like basic static content too.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
#143I 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.
On another note given that Wikipedia's content is in the open, maybe this new UI could be hosted at another domain e.g. pickypedia.org or itchypedia.org or something else funny instead of being a Chrome plugin.
Chrome plugins add more unwelcome startup bloat to the web browser, and while they are super useful to fix the UI issues of commercial, copyrighted websites, Wikipedia can totally legally be replicated at another domain.
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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.
> so I just use mobile apps
That might have been their goal?
Although I detest having to use apps for every site. The Reddit app is also super buggy.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
#145Its funny I was actually looking for a wiki extension that allowed more readability on desktop a couple of days ago.
I tried out Readable Wikipedia [0]. Which I really liked (kind of turns it into mobile, which is good enough for me) But it seems to have been abandoned, since images didn't load for me.
I then tried out WikiWand [1]. Although I've been using it and its been ok for the most part, it seemed over the top, and the UI was still a bit dated. Also, didn't like how it would load images in a banner view at the top...
I look forward to trying this out, looks very promising. Thanks for spending the time to make it!!
[0] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readable-wikipedia... [1] - https://www.wikiwand.com/
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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?
This feels like a failing on Microsoft’s part, at least for current versions of Windows. The bar for a viable system font has been raised and it’s their responsibility as an OS vendor to ensure the bar is met across localizations. As for old versions of Windows… well, one should probably look at their target market/user base. If your demographic is firmly Roman western use of system-ui is probably fine — as far as I’…
You can call it a failing on MS's part up until you have real users that are impacted because then it really doesn't matter who's fault it is when users can't use your site.
So MS should fix this and until then you shouldn't use system-ui.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
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Equally, I don't like it when websites try to guess what kind of browser I'm in and force me into the mobile experience when I have a window take up half the screen on a 1080p monitor, ... so I guess there's really no easy win for this :(
I think proper media queries breakpoints solve this
No, it won't. There is no clear distinction between mobile and tablet first of all.
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#148Looks pretty nice! I installed it and gave it a go. It definitely looks neater on the landing page demo than it does on my monitor; I suspect it's because my monitor is running at 1440p.
Also, it appears a little broken on maths-heavy pages. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_series.
Multi-line equations get displaced by the pictures on the side, some even appearing with a horizontal scroll bar. Lots of strange white-space in some equations.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
#149OP, 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 .
not totally obvious to me what you mean here? at first glance this seems to have less chrome than the standard ui, and to be more timeless in the specific sense that it has a closer resemblance to a paper encyclopedia layout versus mid-00s web styling.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
#150This kind of reminds me of a short project from a guy I knew in college: