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So many knee-jerk reactions by people disliking the change, so I want to give another view: I really like the new design. - When reading an article, I want to
by yccs27 4y ago
So many knee-jerk reactions by people disliking the change, so I want to give another view: I really like the new design.
- When reading an article, I want to have absolutely minimal visual noise. Removing the old sidebar helps.
- The smaller column width helps with readability, because it's easier to scan back to the start of the next line.
- It's great to have the table of contents always visible, to quickly jump around the some of the miles-long articles typical for Wikipedia.
- I don't need anything else on the page - so I don't have any complaints about "inefficient use of space". On the contrary - more whitespace helps me focus on the article.
- Unlike with Wikiwand, there are no distracting animations.
- BeetleB 4y agoI strongly dislike that the table of contents have folded entries. I now have to click to get the link to a subheading. In general, for quite a few things I need extra clicks to get to it. Also, as I mostly print articles[1], I had a special printing layout set up to print Wikipedia articles. I need to come up with a new layout (reader view for Wikipedia used to be terrible). [1] https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2021/Dec/consuming-articles-offline/ https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2021/Dec/consuming-articles-off...
- ryukoposting 4y agoI agree. I think the redesign is good (and overdue) but hiding the table of contents by default is bad.