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One of my All-Time FAVORITE Apps… but
Let me preface by saying I love Wikipedia. I use it multiple times a day, and I donate yearly when that time rolls around because I feel the world is better for it. However, the actual app has a few things that I would like to see implemented. For starters, I wish that one of the icons on the bottom of the screen was for switching tabs, much like on safari, because I often want to look at another article but not lose the article I’m currently reading. The other thing is I wish they didn’t remove the “continue reading” widget they used to have, so if closed, I could just click the widget to relaunch into the article. If it had these two features I would give them 5 stars and more money at the yearly donation time.Show lesssuitguy25
EXTREME ZOOM!!!!!!
There are lots of little things that annoy me but most have been fixed or are very minor
But this is a HUGE annoyance: the zoom function.
Any app or website I have ever used, I can double tap, and it zooms in a predictable, reasonable amount that I am used to. I want more? I’ll just pinch to zoom in further if needed
On this app, every single picture you double tap doesn’t just zoom in a little. Oh no, if I double tap to appreciate the details slightly more, it will start zooming in until I can see individual hairs, then dust particles, then molecules. These become atoms, and then electrons. At some point, I am convinced I am peering at the quantum foam underlying reality itself
Exaggerating slightly, but it actually is ridiculous. I ALWAYS have to zoom back out because of how insanely deep it ends up going. It entirely defeats the purpose of double tap zooming, a quick convenient one-handed slight zoom. PLEASE FIX THIS
Otherwise, no complaints, good app, thanks for your work. The homepage could be more “Wikipedia-ish” and less “social media-ish”, and also there should be a way to view old edits without scrolling all the way (basically impossible to view edits atm unless they are recent). But overall nice comfy app, thank youShow lessjdjdjdnsjd
Wow it’s even worse than the UI Update to the Desktop Website
I will never understand why “mobile-optimized” or “mobile-first” means a terrible, unusable experience. I was hoping the app would have an easy way of selecting the Vector skin by default for Wikipedia pages—you know, the way the website used to normally look for the past 10 years before the terrible “mobile” update they rolled out. Currently the only way to view Wikipedia is to manually add ?useskin=vector to the end of ever url. What a pain. Or make an account, which I never had to and shouldn’t have to do. But gee, I didn’t know when I was better off! The app is so bad, with a fixed table of contents margin on the left third of the screen, it makes the website look good by comparison. No way to select what skin you want, in fact, you’re stuck between blinding white light mode or pitch black dark mode. Another typical disastrous design choice, Why can’t anybody make a neutral color that is easy on the eyes day or night anymore?
And don’t expect an easy way to read on a tablet/iPad. This version requires constant scrolling to read anything. Instantly deleted. Better off sticking with viewing pages in a web browser.Show lesstook the name I wanted