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.

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rwl an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Presumably the 40mb of data is not from Wikipedia, but the Javascript tracking code bundle needed to turn it into a doomscrollable social media feed. ;) By those standards, I think it’s pretty lightweight! For comparison, the Instagram iOS app is 468.9mb, more than ten times the size…

	▲	repeekad 30 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Now imagine how big the builds are for Instagram's server side doomscrollable feed algorithm, given their inverse incentives to this project.
	▲	isqueiros 27 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		40mb is way too much for a JS bundle... Even with a framework you could do this with 5mb or less.

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sampli 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah. Should be able to load in the background once you start scrolling

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modzu an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

probably vibe coded