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Life & fun · May 6, 2023

LD

Low-Distraction Wikipedia Mirror

THIS IS PRIMARILY A DESKTOP EXPERIENCE. It kinda works on mobile, but it's not nearly as thought through. https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/article/Hacker_News This is a re-implementation of a thing I was experimenting with a few years ago earlier. I find the blue links of Wikipedia very distracting, and my attention starts skipping around when I read text that is busy like that. Gone are inline links, footnotes, most references, many tables, all images. I removed all the distractions on a what-if basis. I've also experimented with designing the encyclopedia around…

What it does

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THIS IS PRIMARILY A DESKTOP EXPERIENCE. It kinda works on mobile, but it's not nearly as thought through. https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/article/Hacker_News This is a re-implementation of a thing I was experimenting with a few years ago earlier. I find the blue links of Wikipedia very distracting, and my attention starts skipping around when I read text that is busy like that. Gone are inline links, footnotes, most references, many tables, all images. I removed all the distractions on a what-if basis. I've also experimented with designing the encyclopedia around offering other forms of exploration than using inline links. Search is implemented through grievous abuse of a PATRICIA Trie.

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