alt Hacker NewsThis 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 surface good quality articles that maximize the "I learnt something new today" factor. Overall kudos to the developer for original thinking.
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blinding-streak • today at 1:47 PM
Yeah, the implementation is odd. Cool idea though. Also see:
sampli • today at 5:54 AM
Yeah. Should be able to load in the background once you start scrolling
Presumably 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 think it’s pretty lightweight! For comparison, the Instagram iOS app is 468.9mb, more than ten times the size…