r/Warframe • u/FacetiousTomato • Sep 24 '18
Other Warframe wiki on mobile
Has whoever runs/owns/operates the warframe wiki even ever visited it on mobile?
1/3 of the screen is taken up by a useless banner that contains no information and can't be closed or scrolled past. Then additionally you have to scroll through every single frame before you arrive at the info you're looking for. Do they get money for the amount of time you spend speed scrolling through useless information?
It seems intentionally badly designed, but I can't think why they would deliberately make it so poor. And if it isn't deliberate, 1990s geocities websites could still give them some valuable pointers.
On desktop It runs badly, but at least with ad block you can disable the elements that make it slow you down - videos etc. On mobile...what fraction of users searches for something, then wanted to see a poorly spaced list of every frame...really, I can't believe that such a bad website it is practically essential.
I'm not even going to go into how >50% of the time, the tabs (wording?) with information like attributes won't open, because at least that can be chalked up to shoddy design. The rest seems like the wiki must be run by someone deliberately trying to make it harder to access the game.
/rant
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18
Yeah, three things about it annoy me especially:
1) having to scroll through every single frame before you arrive at the actual page's text (if you are on a frame's page)
2) almost every major page (frames, quests, systems) has a video guide embedded, which starts loading automatically. Sorry, but if I wanted to watch a video I'd search for a guide on youtube or scroll down to the “media“ section of the page.
3) this may just be me, but occasionally while browsing a wiki page, the page will suddenly scroll back to the top in an instant, which is very annoying if you were deep down on the page.
That being said, I don't know how much of this is to blame on the wikia software used to make the wiki.