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.
Nice loading indicator! People just don't know how to make those anymore. I think you mistitled your submission, though?
I ran across a grammar mistake in one of the entries and clicked into the actual wikipedia entry to fix it. That was satisfying. Imagine being able to do that on social media.
Please fix the loading issue and I’ll return! I think you don’t need to pull all the data at initialization, you could lazily grab a couple from each category and just keep doing it as people scroll.
The loading issue is just a hug of death, the site's currently getting multiple visitors per second, and that requires more than a gigabit of bandwidth to handle.<p>I sort of need to pull all the data at the initialization because I need to map out how every post affects every other - the links between posts are what take up majority of the storage, not the text inside the posts. It's also kind of the only way to preserve privacy.
TIL:<p><i>The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. They are currently owned and under the authority of the United States Government. They used to be owned by Denmark (and called Danish West Indies). They were sold to the U.S. on January 17, 1917, because of fear that the Germans would capture them and use them as a submarine base in World War I.</i><p><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" rel="nofollow">https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islan...</a>
Love the concept. Wikitok also exists [1] but the recommendation aspect that you're bringing you the table is a very intriguing original spin on it. I would be fascinated to see what a smart algorithm could discover on my behalf on Wikipedia given enough time.<p>I think it would be nice if you could do a non simple English version but nevertheless happy with what you've put together, and I've added a shortcut to my phone. Please don't let the negativity stop you from continuing to work on it.<p>1. <a href="https://www.wikitok.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wikitok.io/</a>
You know, I enjoyed this, it's nice to get some random, interesting stuff to browse on occasion.
Took several minutes to load for me, and when my download got to 100%, the browser (safari on ios) refreshed the page and started at 0% again.
I love the concept. But the long load at startup really kills it. Even clicking off the site and reloading makes me have to go through the download all over again.
Built something similar for research papers:
<a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/soch" rel="nofollow">https://www.producthunt.com/products/soch</a>
This is really cool. And in only 500 lines of code is really impressive. I would have thought this was much more.
Page crashed after downloading and extracting. On safari iPhone that’s a few years old, latest iOS. I was really interested in trying / why I waited
Ed: tried again it crashed at 66% loading (after 100% loading)
I wonder if this would be a "better" way to build this thing: <a href="https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/duckdb-iceberg-browser-s3/" rel="nofollow">https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/duckdb-iceberg-browser-s3...</a><p>DuckDB loaded in the browser via WebAssembly and Parquet files in S3.
How does it actually work? Can you add an "about" page that goes into the algo? Or can you add more info on the readme on github? I'd love to learn more.
An issue I have with these apps that claim to be for doomscrolling is that you don't open apps like Instagram or Facebook to doomscroll, you open them to check messages or stories. The doomscrolling is an afterthought. These things assume you can realize you're doomscrolling and not only break out of it, but choose to hypnotize yourself in <i>their</i> app.
This is unfortunately loading very, very slowly for me.
I was genuinely excited to try this and it sounded in theory like a lot of fun! Unfortunately yeah too slow to load.
Reminds one of Sesame Street - let’s put educational content in this new hyponotic medium!
It's ironic that doomscrollable social media feeds are built for low attention spans, because this website is the opposite. Gave up after 20 seconds.
This would actually be really fun if built around social feature like curators who could quote-repost the posts, popular/trending sorting and a threaded comment system.
So they took the worst aspect of Wikipedia (Wikipedia), and the worst aspect of "social" media (doom scrolling), and combined them? Brilliant concept. When can we expect the IPO?
If you load it in Chrome, it loads MUCH faster
> Xikipedia is loading... (3% of 40MB loaded)<p>I gave up after about a minute.
I am so lucky to be basically immune to short form video garbage like TikTok, but I am not immune to Wikipedia's allure.<p>I easily have over 100 tabs of wikipedia open at any one time, reading about the most random stuff ever. I'm the guy who will unironically look up the food I'm eating on wikipedia while I'm eating it.<p>No need to try to make it "doomscrollable" when it's already got me by the balls.
Please only continue if you are an adult? You realize Wikipedia has no age restrictions right...
all images overflow for me
It took forever to load
surprisingly... boring?
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Cool story bro<p>WP is already shit, why should anyone doomscroll it?
Man wikipedia is full of trash
I like the concept, but I'm not going to be reading Simple English Wikipedia.