Ask HN: Why are wiki's UIs not evolving?

Re:Ask HN: Why are wiki's UIs not evolving? by throwaway13000 on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @06:46PM (#20464805)

Functionality wise, yes, there is not much improvement required but looks like, fonts can be improved, spacing/whitespaces can be improved. We could have pagination. We could have some themes which remove sidebars, we could have wiki's that may be embedded in larger site and hence can reuse their stylesheets etc

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Re:Ask HN: Why are wiki's UIs not evolving? by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @08:37PM (#20465517)

> We could have pagination.

Pagination is a bug, not a feature. Screens are not books.

The only, I repeat ONLY, reason to use pagination on a web page (That isn't incredibly long, such as a table with hundreds of rows) is so you can serve more ads.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are wiki's UIs not evolving? by fabiomaia on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:15AM (#20468355)

> Pagination is a bug, not a feature. Screens are not books.

I like this.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are wiki's UIs not evolving? by narshaven on Sunday July 21, 2019 @12:25AM (#20489941)

Very much agree with your thoughts.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are wiki's UIs not evolving? by PaulHoule on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @06:48PM (#20464820)

Why pagination? I think commercial sites are just paginated to make you click more times so they can tell the ad network that they gave more impressions.

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