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Enshitification is slower on Wikipedia than elsewhere, but sadly still happening. I'm still upset about the language button that cause me one additional click i
by gwervc 2y ago
Enshitification is slower on Wikipedia than elsewhere, but sadly still happening. I'm still upset about the language button that cause me one additional click instead of the direct links on the left menu.
- bawolff 2y agoFwiw,if you are logged in you can switch your skin in Special:preferences to bring the old look back.
- dylan604 2y agologged in? do people that are not editors do that?
- bawolff 2y agoI mean, if you hate the new skin enough, seems like a valid reason. Not really any downside. Remember my log in has an expiry of about a year so you don't have to be continously logging in. Banner ads are not shown to logged in users which is nice. Wikimedia doesn't really do tracking of reads, so dont have to worry about that (i mean, i suppose web servers have logs, but that is true if logged out too). I suppose maybe its slightly slower since only logged out views are handled by geolocated servers so there is a bit more latency if you aren't in north america.
- Izkata 2y agoIf you don't want to log in you can add ?useskin=vector to any wikipedia URL to get the same. There's a few others as well and they have a bookmarklet you can add to just click on to switch the current page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin