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Have been using this new theme since beta. I love the much cleaner look more than the previous one. One can always tune the CSS yourself at the user's preferenc
by chazeon 4y ago
Have been using this new theme since beta. I love the much cleaner look more than the previous one. One can always tune the CSS yourself at the user's preference near the theme selector. The only thing I need to adjust to my liking is to limit the line width:
main#content {
max-width: 40em;
}
For those who hate it: you will always have the option to switch back to the old theme.
I really hope any website could be as flexible as Wikipedia to allow users to write their own CSS.
- kerpotgh 4y agoHow do you make the max-width apply permanently to a website on chrome?
- flobosg 4y agoYou can use an extension such as Stylebot: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...
- sturob 4y agoIf you're logged in to wikipedia you can add custom css (and js) in 'Preferences > Appearance'
- ghghgfdfgh 4y ago> you will always have the option to switch back to the old theme. The only issue is, you need to log in to do this. I don't want to have to log in to a website that I read, and never edit, to get rid of the giant distracting table of contents.
- trynewideas 4y agoAlso, VPN users who create or log in to accounts are radically limited or indiscriminately blocked.[1][2] Getting out of that state requires manual intervention.[3] Many VPN users don't use accounts as a result. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_edits_are_not_anonymous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_edits_are_not_ano... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:I_have_been_blocked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:I_have_been_blocked 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption
- pessimizer 4y agoSimple userscript to add the tags from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34431533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34431533 to the end of wikipedia URLs. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/458494-old-wikipedia-layout https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/458494-old-wikipedia-layou...
- zppln 4y agoThis assumes you control your browser, which may not be the case in a corp setting.
- Dalewyn 4y agoI'm upvoting this to counteract the downvotes. Basic customizations should never be blocked behind an accountgate.
- Dalewyn 4y ago>I really hope any website could be as flexible as Wikipedia to allow users to write their own CSS. Once upon a time, there was an initiative for websites to add a unique CSS ID to the <body> tag so users could customize them with user stylesheets. For example: <body id="news-ycombinator-com"> for this website, and then users can apply CSS rules as they see fit via the user stylesheet. Sadly, the initiative never took off and most browsers nowadays don't even know what a user stylesheet is.
- coldpie 4y agoFirefox does. You have to go enable it in about:config, but it still works fine. Even has per-domain filters so you don't even need the body-id attribute you mentioned. See top example in the README here: https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/firefox-css https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/firefox-css
- notpushkin 4y agoBoy do I have good news [1] for you. [1]: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus https://github.com/openstyles/stylus