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