[abhinai]

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 surface good quality articles that maximize the "I learnt something new today" factor. Overall kudos to the developer for original thinking.

[rwl]

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…

[rebane2001]

The 40MB of data is Wikipedia data, the site itself is 21kB.

[isqueiros]

40mb is way too much for a JS bundle... Even with a framework you could do this with 5mb or less.

[repeekad]

Now imagine how big the builds are for Instagram's server side doomscrollable feed algorithm, given their inverse incentives to this project.

[sampli]

Yeah. Should be able to load in the background once you start scrolling

[blinding-streak]

Yeah, the implementation is odd. Cool idea though. Also see:

https://www.wikitok.io/

[aizk]

Thanks! That's me :)

[modzu]

probably vibe coded

[rebane2001]

I wrote this project by hand in Sublime Text, which is more of a text editor than an IDE. I don't use ai, even for autocomplete.

All of the code is unminified/unobfuscated in the index.html file, you can right click the page and view-source it.

[whynotmaybe]

Should that be a criteria for deciding whether it's cool or not?