I HATE MOBILE WEBSITES AS THE DEFAULT
Why does everyone always fucking do this? Youtube is still a shittier layout than it was 10 years ago. As is Reddit. Some new features are good, but the layout is piss poor. This new wiki layout literally displays as ~40% empty white space on my screens. I basically never use my phone to browse sites, and when I do, I almost always have to pick desktop mode anyway because mobile layouts are awful.
It’s apparently a modern UX mantra that any UI change will create a lot backlash, and then it will die down and that means the change is good. It’s the stupidest fucking thinking, maybe people just realise you’re not fucking listening so they give up and put up with a worse interface?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering
Pick “Vector legacy (2010)”, scroll down and save
Or pick “MonoBook” if you want even older Wikipedia.
Apparently this was majority voted against but still pushed through lmao.
abusive and patronizing practice called A/B testing
Why? Practical data on the effect of a change is 1000x better than asking the user or more commonly, just guessing.
For most bad interface parts, when you ask the UI guy why it’s like that, you either get:
That’s just the way they made it
Some imagined use case literally nobody follows
They watched users using it wrong and stuck guide rails in
wow this is dogshit, so much wasted space
anyone got css to remove the empty space???
edit: removing margin of class=“mw-content-container” fixes it
add
spoiler
en.wikipedia.org##.vector-feature-page-tools-disabled .mw-content-container, .vector-feature-page-tools-disabled .mw-table-of-contents-container:style(max-width: none !important;)
en.wikipedia.org##.mw-page-container:style(max-width: none !important;)
to ublock origin filter list
for removing that hamburger menu on home page:
spoiler
en.wikipedia.org##+js(ra.js, id, input#mw-sidebar-checkbox)
Or just go here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering and pick “Vector legacy (2010)”
