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comment by Drylandfish
Drylandfish  ·  3141 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Wikipedia Traffic is down 300K people a day

I have noticed lately that when using a tablet or phone, Wikipedia tries to shunt me to the download of an app. It's possible that lots of people, just trying to quickly look something up, are saying "screw it", rather than jump through the hoops.





Kerbobotat  ·  3140 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Same reason I gave up on Ultimate Guitar. Used to be the best site for guitar tableture, now you can't load tabs on mobile without having their app forced down your throat.

ButterflyEffect  ·  3140 days ago  ·  link  ·  

UG is a steaming pile of garbage. If they focused on making a clean and easy to use site instead of a purposefully convulated mess they'd probably be in better shape than the whole they've dug themselves into.