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I 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

I 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.

umvi 5y ago
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.
- chris_wot 5y ago
  There is nothing wrong with expressing any opinion.
- deleted 5y ago
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thrdbndndn 5y ago
One unique UI feature of Wikipedia is that it has tons of tables that are super wide. They look fine on a monitor with 1080p+ resolution, but reading such articles on mobile has always been horrible experience. Unfortunately, this "modern" UI (larger font, narrow width) causes the exactly same problem on desktop.
- carabiner 5y ago
  God yes this is annoying. TV episode summaries are in wide tables too and it's excruciating to read on mobile. These are mostly freeflowing text, not statistics, and there's no benefit to being put in a table. What is with the over-tabulation on Wikipedia?
  - thrdbndndn 5y ago
    I in general prefer tables but yeah having summary of TV episodes makes no sense and has been one of my pet peeve of Wikipedia formatting for a while.
- ciphol 5y ago
  Sometimes when this happens, I rotate my phone 90 degrees so that the whole width of the table can be easily seen.
matsemann 5y ago
> A lot of space seems wasted here and I can view less content at once. More space makes thing easier to read, though. You could have font size 8 and a couple hundred chars long lines on your 4k monitor. Would see lots of content, but would be unreadable.

umvi 5y ago

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.

chris_wot 5y ago
There is nothing wrong with expressing any opinion.
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thrdbndndn 5y ago

One unique UI feature of Wikipedia is that it has tons of tables that are super wide. They look fine on a monitor with 1080p+ resolution, but reading such articles on mobile has always been horrible experience. Unfortunately, this "modern" UI (larger font, narrow width) causes the exactly same problem on desktop.

carabiner 5y ago
God yes this is annoying. TV episode summaries are in wide tables too and it's excruciating to read on mobile. These are mostly freeflowing text, not statistics, and there's no benefit to being put in a table. What is with the over-tabulation on Wikipedia?
- thrdbndndn 5y ago
  I in general prefer tables but yeah having summary of TV episodes makes no sense and has been one of my pet peeve of Wikipedia formatting for a while.
ciphol 5y ago
Sometimes when this happens, I rotate my phone 90 degrees so that the whole width of the table can be easily seen.

matsemann 5y ago

> A lot of space seems wasted here and I can view less content at once. More space makes thing easier to read, though. You could have font size 8 and a couple hundred chars long lines on your 4k monitor. Would see lots of content, but would be unreadable.