I’m using Safari on an iPhone X running the latest OS:
* The main page search bar is really choppy.
I typed in “lisp” and, when holding down backspace, the cursor skipped around.
* The website is unwelcoming.
If this is supposed to be a wiki, then maybe the landing would be better off if it just contained a logo, short description, search bar, and a random-article button.
The idea of a “modern wiki” caught my attention, and I’d be interested to see how this fleshes out.
IMO a platform like this has a lot of potential, especially for education. Wikipedia is often far too dense to really learn from if you're not already a subject matter expert.
One thing that concerns me slightly is the presentation of opinion as fact, which to some extent is inevitable in a public wiki that has no citation requirement. There also seem to be articles with a wide variety of intents - there are informative articles like the keto diet instructions and the hierarchy of evidence, but also laundry lists like "no brainers" and "scientific study requests". I don't know if there is an intended purpose for the contents of the site, but having this mix creates some ambiguity in my eyes.
Overall, I'm keen to see where this goes - especially if it can help me to learn new useful ideas and practices (as opposed to edutainment-style wikipedia browsing).
Encouraging but not enforcing citations sounds good - requiring citations may end up drying up the content wikipedia-style.
The content I'm interested in is twofold - practical/actionable info, and high-level summaries. The former is somewhat covered by WikiHow but their content is notoriously vapid. There's nowhere currently that I'm aware of that I can quickly learn the general mental model for a new topic. If I was new to keto, for example, the article on your wiki would provide me with all the high-level knowledge I need to get started, and to roughly understand what's going on. There are numerous concepts that I want to learn about but often that requires buying 2-3 books or reading a lot of articles before I can start to understand the mental model. Self-help and business books for example are well known for stretching an easy-to-understand concept out into hundreds of pages.
Looks very interesting. Maybe link to examples of threads? I didn't see any in action, but looks like a good idea.
I'd also suggest smaller default font. Sites like this benefit from high informational density (look at craigslist, reddit (old design) and wikipedia as examples). That's my vote anyway.
I do think it's a good idea to have a starter thread and starter comment for each topic. Stay tuned for that.
You may be right about the font size. For now, Grok's larger font size is deliberately lower density. It's meant to encourage conciseness, be comfortable to read, and avoid overwhelm.
One guideline I'm trying to respect is what UX people claim is the ideal text line width: 50-75 chars. Wikipedia, on other hand, is ~279 chars on my present screen (it scales with screen width), which feels awkward to me.
Chrome 66.0.3359.158, android 8.1.0
There should be an answer in the negative if your search produces no results. This problem is exacerbated by the beta status and lack of articles - it took me almost a minute to figure out if my queries (like "computer" and "a") were producing no hits or if the site was broken.
