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1459 points Group_B | 4 comments | 04 Feb 25 18:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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arrowsmith ◴[04 Feb 25 18:48 UTC] No.42936803[source]▶
How is this different from Wikipedia’s own “random article” feature?
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guessmyname ◴[04 Feb 25 18:55 UTC] No.42936894[source]▶
Your question doesn’t quite make sense.

It sounds like you’re suggesting the two web pages are identical, just on different domains, but they’re obviously completely different.

A better way to phrase your question would be: "Why would a TikTok-style (infinite scrolling) website for browsing Wikipedia articles appeal to today’s internet users?"

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1. LVB ◴[04 Feb 25 19:45 UTC] No.42937565[source]▶
It’s a reasonable question, and one I had myself. Of course the UX is different, but that is self evident and we don’t need to be pedantic. What’s not obvious is whether this is wrapping the existing RandomPage API, filtering it, doing some sort of prediction/recommendation, etc.
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2. arrowsmith ◴[04 Feb 25 19:58 UTC] No.42937750[source]▶
> we don’t need to be pedantic

You must be new to HN

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3. seabass-labrax ◴[04 Feb 25 20:12 UTC] No.42937944[source]▶
Even more pedantically, parent's account is more than ten years older than yours or mine, and has ~50% more karma, so perhaps not :)
4. tbossanova ◴[05 Feb 25 01:44 UTC] No.42942413[source]▶
So perhaps your question is “how does this choose articles differently from wikipedias own random page?”? Which I also wondered.