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Text-only view of Wikipedia articles #3

Closed bradgessler closed 2 years ago

bradgessler commented 2 years ago

Loading Wikipedia on the desktop is actually a bit slow and being whisked to a different website makes the reading experience slightly more distracting:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4628/146222532-33942a69-1bac-4f07-9a71-bccbfe03884d.mov

Instead of linking directly to Wikipedia articles, link to a view within Legible News that loads a faster text-only view of the content:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4628/146222744-76eaa93d-1a43-4efc-9dfe-00e00377eae2.mov

bradgessler commented 2 years ago

This feature will require a Plus subscription to read all articles in "Focus" mode (still need a better name for that)

Here's what this currently looks like when you're logged out, and what it looks like after you login.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4628/146859404-efe3f0f5-c978-47ca-9d6c-ec7d726bc0e1.MOV

bradgessler commented 2 years ago

Shipped! I'm going to make this available only to Plus customers. Non-plus can still click through to the Wikipedia article to read the content.