Re: [WikimediaMobile] Thoughts on the mobile app automatically loading the front page

Other ideas about relevant articles to display to anticipate user interests: - Most read articles by other users recently (to try to surface info related to recent events) - Nearby articles - Watched articles (from watchilst or user read history) that have been updated recently. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thanks for the feedback Oliver! We've heard this issue before and it's > definitely something to consider. > > Note that we're going to start a *complete* overhaul of the Wikipedia > reader app in a few weeks, so we'll be wanting user feedback like this for > our design planning! > > A faster app launch experience is definitely something we want in the new > app. We'll be separating many of the user interface components like the > search bar out of the web view, which should let the search fire up and be > working much quicker, without waiting on the full web view to initialize > and render a page. > * default to the main page (like the current app) > * show the last-viewed article (like using the web browser) > * show a quick recently-viewed-stuff list > * ??? > > Whether it ends up selectable or not, we definitely want to make sure it's > *fast* -- the ideal is that you don't care what it loaded up because you > don't have to wait any extra for it. :) > > -- brion > > > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Oliver Zhu <ollie.zhu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Mobile List >> >> One of my biggest gripes about the app is the fact that I need to load >> the front page onto my phone when I open the app up. In my scenario, I will >> usually pull up the Wikipedia app to look up some facts to settle a >> friendly discussion; all of my friends who use the app use it similarly. >> >> Since I never use the app to *browse* Wikipedia like I do when I'm at >> home at my desktop computer, there's no use in loading the front page. In >> fact, it's pretty frustrating when the text I'm typing in the search bar >> lags, or gets reset as I'm typing my entry, and I'm forced to wait for the >> front page to load first. It sort of defeats the purpose of having quick >> access to Wikipedia, since the alternative would be to open up a browser >> and go to wikipedia.org or flip through Google search entries. >> >> (I'm using Version 3.3.1 on an iPhone 4 with iOS 7 if that's relevant.) >> >> I was curious if there has ever been discussion about adding a setting >> that would allow the user to see the search bar only instead of the front >> page when she opens the app. >> >> I've already posted about this idea on the Mobile/2013 strategy planning >> page, but I'm not sure how deep into the idea list people are reading: >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/2013_strategy_planning#Option_to_only… >> >> Apologies if this is not the appropriate forum to discuss this kind of >> issue. I just subscribed to this list. >> >> Thanks, >> Oliver Zhu >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Pau Giner Interaction Designer Wikimedia Foundation