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Finally! But… > Wikipedia’s use of it is surprising to our present day audience, and it may decrease the perceived strength of domain branding Really? That’s
by lxgr 1y ago
Finally! But…
> Wikipedia’s use of it is surprising to our present day audience, and it may decrease the perceived strength of domain branding
Really? That’s the reasoning, and not the fact that mobile links forwarded to desktop browsers would render the mobile view?!
- pr337h4m 1y agoThe mobile view is a really pleasant reading experience on desktop.
- lxgr 1y agoAdmittedly, it does make for some good impromptu neck exercises on any typical screen.
- bawolff 1y ago> Really? That’s the reasoning, and not the fact that mobile links forwarded to desktop browsers would render the mobile view?! If you read the more technical internal rationals instead of just the press release, what you said is mentioned as one of the reasons for the change https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Mobile_domain_sunsetting https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Mobile_d...
- LeoPanthera 1y agoIt's surely much less of a problem than most non-technical users wondering why Wikipedia URLs start with "en" instead of "www".
- autoexec 1y agoI'd be surprised if anyone but the oldest non-technical users had any idea what the "www" was or why it would or wouldn't be at the front of a URL. It takes zero technical knowledge to understand "en" indicates the language and probably rarely comes up since you can use www or omit the en and links mostly just work.
- lxgr 1y agoThey might wonder (although I doubt it), but it’s nothing actionable. With m., they used to see a mobile layout that’s a really poor fit for a desktop screen and that they would have manually switch out of via some relatively obscure button.
- loeg 1y agoHey, when you spend over $100 million a year to run your website, that's the kind of thoughtful analysis one might expect.