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.