click here for a random wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
you might have to click a few times, some have the old appearance
I HATE USING MOBILE WEBSITES ON DESKTOP
I HATE USING MOBILE WEBSITES ON DESKTOP
If you put "?useskin=vector" at the end of an article's url without the quotes you can get the old layout back. It probably won't be long until there are browser extensions to do it automatically.
It's wild to me because redesigns can be good. Twitter's redesign is objectively 100x better than it was, it's both responsive and modern.
Just do good design and people will actually like and want to use it. Responsiveness is the highest priority, then everything else. Techbros are all like "it's fine we'll ship it and ITERATE on it" but then they fucking don't and it stays garbage forever.
This would have been fine if 4:3 aspect ratio displays were still relevant. With 16:9 and 21:9 being the most relevant aspect ratios for desktop displays it makes no sense to move to this sort of formatting. The amount of whitespace is jarring.
If the screen is big enough in the bottom-right there'll be a button to change to a more wider view
streamlining
Yes, that is the word I'm looking for! This I think is my big problem with so much of contemporary aesthetics. Everything is way too streamlined. We can't just let something have character anymore.
Fuckin sucks. Love how they hid the sidebar behind a button and instead have just vast deserts of nothing on screen.
bro bro just a little bit more white space, bro come on bro just a little more bro BRO
It just feels very empty and characterless. The gray background and white foreground separated by thin blue lines (:the-pigs:) gave the page definition and a certain old-school flair (I especially miss the blue gradient for the Article/Talk/Read/Edit/View History buttons at the top - it felt like something from a simpler time before everything got flattened out and material design'd into oblivion). Now the article text just looks strange floating in a sea of white, like the left margin has just been made gigantic for no reason.
Also, while it's nice to have the table of contents more readily accessible no matter where you are in the page, hiding the old sidebar behind the sandwich button is lame as hell
I hate it, but I also think we should go back to how the internet looked in the 90s so make of that what you will.
Bring back 30 random gifs at the bottom of the home page along with a visitor counter.
