m.youtube.com and m.facebook.com redirect you to main "m-less" domain when on desktop. That was the greatest problem with Wikipedia. You had to experience that mobile layout on desktop unless you edited the address line and reloaded the page.
m.wikipedia.org was a feature, not a bug. The interface is good on desktop. For some time, before Wikipedia did a desktop site rework, this was my go-to frontend.
Guess this also means I’m getting old as I remember the earlier comics about his partner going through this. I think this is the first one I read after I became a “weekly reader”: https://xkcd.com/1141.
again though... late for what? it's not like someone else came along, did it better, and now wikipedia is some dwindling anachronism
they didn't jump on the shifting trends immediately, got to it eventually when it was the clear path, and implemented it in a completely reasonable way... they may have actually benefited quite a bit for directions to settle
YouTube? Twitch? FaceBook? GSMArena? There are lots.
m.youtube.com and m.facebook.com redirect you to main "m-less" domain when on desktop. That was the greatest problem with Wikipedia. You had to experience that mobile layout on desktop unless you edited the address line and reloaded the page.
m.wikipedia.org was a feature, not a bug. The interface is good on desktop. For some time, before Wikipedia did a desktop site rework, this was my go-to frontend.
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https://m.xkcd.com/ is one example that I actually find useful.
(Well, the mobile view is useful. Not sure whether splitting it off into its own domain is useful.)
Very touching current XKCD. https://xkcd.com/3172.
Guess this also means I’m getting old as I remember the earlier comics about his partner going through this. I think this is the first one I read after I became a “weekly reader”: https://xkcd.com/1141.
I agree. AFAICT there is no way to view a comic's alt-text on mobile on the desktop site. (Also, the desktop site is way too zoomed out.)
Long press on the image to get the alt-text on desktop xkcd
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late for what?
pc website redirected mobile users from the very beginning
mobile website did not redirect pc users
10 years late at fixing this very basic problem
again though... late for what? it's not like someone else came along, did it better, and now wikipedia is some dwindling anachronism
they didn't jump on the shifting trends immediately, got to it eventually when it was the clear path, and implemented it in a completely reasonable way... they may have actually benefited quite a bit for directions to settle
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Late for fixing design and UX bifurcation.