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> Wikipedia mobile annoys me by removing the other languages column without seeming to offer any alternative but forcing desktop. That column is about 60% of Wi
by npsimons 9y ago
> Wikipedia mobile annoys me by removing the other languages column without seeming to offer any alternative but forcing desktop. That column is about 60% of Wikipedia's utility for me.
Two thoughts immediately sprang to my mind:
1) You are really smart to speak that many languages.
2) You are an exceptionally rare user.
- kahnpro 9y agoYou're kidding? Many people even in the US speak two or more languages. English and Spanish/Chinese/Arabic/who knows. And then Europe?
- remline 9y agoI think my usage pattern is probably a significant one for all the non-english Wikipedia's and a reason why it has bested some language specific ones.. But I wasn't really saying my use case was common only showing it as another example where choices made to reduce UI and thereby improve some use cases must hurt others. That kind of mobile site should have a short life as mobile comes up to the bear minimum of 1990s utility as long as we don't give mobile UI a life of it's own with silly nonsense like bottom menu's for the lazy phablet user.. Making the screen shrink for input is the vendors problem. Wanting phablet users to be the priority users of all UIs is the pony we don't give them now that mobile is all grown up and we can ignore their tantrums.