Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
by rebane2001 on 2/2/2026, 12:12:19 AM
Comments
by: 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.
2/2/2026, 2:54:50 AM
by: pinkmuffinere
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.
2/2/2026, 2:06:23 AM
by: hamburglar
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.
2/2/2026, 2:08:06 AM
by: barcodehorse
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.
2/2/2026, 2:14:37 AM
by: strich
I was genuinely excited to try this and it sounded in theory like a lot of fun! Unfortunately yeah too slow to load.
2/2/2026, 1:59:58 AM
by: mathieudombrock
This is unfortunately loading very, very slowly for me.
2/2/2026, 1:40:47 AM
by: Der_Einzige
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.
2/2/2026, 3:14:33 AM
by: with
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.
2/2/2026, 2:11:06 AM
by: sputknick
If you load it in Chrome, it loads MUCH faster
2/2/2026, 2:54:08 AM
by: esperent
> Xikipedia is loading... (3% of 40MB loaded)<p>I gave up after about a minute.
2/2/2026, 1:37:38 AM
by: kachapopopow
surprisingly... boring?
2/2/2026, 2:16:04 AM
by: pedrozieg
[dead]
2/2/2026, 12:22:15 AM
by: RiceNBananas
Cool story bro<p>WP is already shit, why should anyone doomscroll it?
2/2/2026, 2:09:21 AM
by: reader9274
Man wikipedia is full of trash
2/2/2026, 2:40:53 AM
by: singpolyma3
Please only continue if you are an adult? You realize Wikipedia has no age restrictions right...
2/2/2026, 2:20:50 AM