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How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
18 positive, 29 neutral or asking, 10 mixed, 29 critical, out of 86 comments about the project. Thread score -0.15.
Performance: 1 for, 13 againstIdea: 7 for, 6 againstDesign: 2 for, 5 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Original and fun concept; interesting random articles.
From 3 comments
This is a very neat idea. I am not sure why the page needs to load 40mb of data and make me wait 5 mins before the first view. I'd probably also add some ranking criteria to…
abhinai on HNYou know, I enjoyed this, it's nice to get some random, interesting stuff to browse on occasion.
upstreamutopia on HNMan, this is the greatest thing I have seen on the internet.
gkoenig on HN
Lightweight code, impressive for its size.
From 2 comments
This is really cool. And in only 500 lines of code is really impressive. I would have thought this was much more.
orionfollett on HNPresumably the 40mb of data is not from Wikipedia, but the Javascript tracking code bundle needed to turn it into a doomscrollable social media feed. ;) By those standards, I…
rwl on HN
Objections
Initial 40MB load takes minutes and is too slow.
From 4 comments
> Xikipedia is loading... (3% of 40MB loaded) I gave up after about a minute.
esperent on HNTook several minutes to load for me, and when my download got to 100%, the browser (safari on ios) refreshed the page and started at 0% again.
hamburglar on HNI was genuinely excited to try this and it sounded in theory like a lot of fun! Unfortunately yeah too slow to load.
strich on HNIt took forever to load
kurtis_reed on HN
Page crashes or refreshes on mobile Safari and Firefox iOS.
From 3 comments
Took several minutes to load for me, and when my download got to 100%, the browser (safari on ios) refreshed the page and started at 0% again.
hamburglar on HNPage crashed after downloading and extracting. On safari iPhone that’s a few years old. I was really interested in trying / why I waited
icameron on HNI have been waiting for a project like this since last year when someone on Twitter mentioned it. I can finally doomscroll without my brain rotting. Update, it does not run…
Alifatisk on HN
Feed is not really doomscrollable; cards are unclickable or lead away from feed.
From 2 comments
I don't get it. It shows the intro paragraph of some articles in card list and that's it? Clicking the card takes you away from the feed, instead of creating e.g. some kind of a…
stck on HNEverything is unclickable on the first page for me, the word "Estonia" is typed in grey font on the dark-gray layout, I can not do anything except of selecting text.
eimrine on HN
Requests
Lazy-load data instead of downloading everything upfront.
From 2 comments
Please fix the loading issue and I’ll return! I think you don’t need to pull all the data at initialization, you could lazily grab a couple from each category and just keep doing…
pinkmuffinere on HNYeah. Should be able to load in the background once you start scrolling
sampli on HN
Support languages other than English.
From 1 comment
How cool is that! Feature request: Let the user select another language than English.
fowlie on HN
Add undo for likes and a negative feedback signal.
From 2 comments
Is there a technical reason that you can't click on the filled heart icon again to undo your like? Is it just not implemented, or would it be too much effort to undo the effect…
extraduder_ire on HNI've been waiting for someone to implement this well! I think in the future we might even have tiktok-style influencer videos generated from wikipedia content, who knows. I've…
sebastiennight on HN
Questions
How does the algorithm work?
From 1 comment
How does it actually work? Can you add an "about" page that goes into the algo? Or can you add more info on the readme on github? I'd love to learn more.
ryan_j_naughton on HN
Will the code be open source?
From 2 comments
I've been waiting for someone to implement this well! I think in the future we might even have tiktok-style influencer videos generated from wikipedia content, who knows. I've…
sebastiennight on HNYeah I plan on putting the code for that on GitHub soon too.
rebane2001 on HN
Alternatives named
WikiTok
From 2 comments
Love the concept. Wikitok also exists [1] but the recommendation aspect that you're bringing you the table is a very intriguing original spin on it. I would be fascinated to see…
glenstein on HNSee also: https://www.wikitok.io/ And a plug for my own (fiendishly difficult) Wikipedia-based game: https://studiowgx.willgrant.org/wikipedia-golf/
wgx on HN
Wikispeedruns and Six Degrees of Wikipedia
From 1 comment
- https://wikispeedruns.com/ - https://sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/ - https://www.wikitok.io/
renegat0x0 on HN
Egghead Scroll Learn
From 1 comment
Cool concept. I built something very similar [1] but as a native iOS app in an attempt to cut down on my doomscrolling, but it turns out it’s hard to get my brain to read plain…
DCAlmond on HN