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Re:Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia by CobaltFire on Monday December 06, 2021 @04:22PM (#29465901)
Counterpoint to this:

I’m career military and the fact that Wikipedia (and Facebook) have low bandwidth m.* redirects made life immensely easier on the limited internet in far off places. We really appreciated it being available.

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Re:Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia by account42 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:22AM (#29470200)
Just checked the first acticle linked on the home page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_gunboat_Beli_Orao - 913.39 KB / 298.41 KB transferred

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_gunboat_Beli_Orao - 919.43 KB / 270.18 KB transferred

Not much of a difference. Would be better to spend time optimizing the desktop site for everyone.

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