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Re:The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere by simonebrunozzi on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:56AM (#26330058)
Please post non-mobile links to wikipedia when you can [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

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Re:The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere by aaomidi on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:25PM (#26334790)
Wikipedia should auto redirect to non mobile site when you're not on mobile. Requiring people to follow unwritten rules is annoying.

Why is Wikipedia not doing this?

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Re:The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere by earthling51 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:51PM (#26331950)
Separating presentation by subdomain feels like a relic from the 2000s or earlier. Wikipedia is one site that could do to be modernised with dynamic formatting or whatever it's called. Even BBC moved news.bbc.co.uk to bbc.co.uk/news although that is not quite the same thing.
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Re:The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere by wsinks on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:10AM (#26330297)
Serious question, why?

If you're on a phone, does the non-mobile link redirect to mobile?

The formatting on the mobile site looked just fine to me on a laptop. I'm sure there's a good reason I'm missing.

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Re:The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere by tablespoon on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:33AM (#26330696)
> Serious question, why?

IIRC, mobile Wikipedia has a bigger font, is less information dense, and the navigation doesn't work as well.

> If you're on a phone, does the non-mobile link redirect to mobile?

Pretty sure they do, but the reverse isn't true.

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