Recensioner för Wikiwand - Wikipedia Modernized
Wikiwand - Wikipedia Modernized av Wikiwand
Recension av Celena
Betygsatt 1 av 5
av Celena, för 2 år sedanThis used to be a good extension, which I used for many years across different browsers and devices. Today I've had enough and I'm going to uninstall it.
Before they started remaking it, it was very good. It was essentially a better layout for Wikipedia with not much else to it, but that's why I liked it. It made it clearer to read, easier to use, and just overall felt like a more updated version of Wikipedia's UI. Combined with an ad blocker, it was perfect. However, since the remake, it is worthless. It is so bloated. The majority of the page is taken up with AI stuff, and it wants you to use it constantly. It has made the layout even more confusing - while before I felt like it was very intuitive and more Wikipedia like, now it's just added so much more junk and confusing elements. Wikipedia is way easier to use.
With this latest update, I'm done. I was already getting frustrated with the way pictures were handled. If you clicked on it, there would be various bits of information that covered over part of the picture. Then there was so much blackspace that it wasn't always that much more visible than in the article. You zoom in and it's barely better. Now, I tried to look at the picture it used for the cover image, which no longer shows up in the sidebar as well. I clicked on it, and it was much the same as it used to be, although the information/other pictures below now fades away. Good! However I tried zooming in, because it was still not a big picture. It not only barely zoomed in, but moved the maybe two pixels bigger image around with my cursor. So now I had a very vaguely enlarged picture of some people that bounced around as I tried to exit out of it. Cool!!!!!! Good thing I never use Wikipedia to look at things like art as someone who enjoys art history!!!
The AI is too much, the paywall is too much, the needing to have a separate account for it is too much. And now they have continued to just make the UI worse and worse. I'm done here. I'm so sad that this has gone this way. I'm so disappointed. They had something good and it's useless now. I'd rather use normal Wikipedia, and that's the first time I've said that in many years.
Before they started remaking it, it was very good. It was essentially a better layout for Wikipedia with not much else to it, but that's why I liked it. It made it clearer to read, easier to use, and just overall felt like a more updated version of Wikipedia's UI. Combined with an ad blocker, it was perfect. However, since the remake, it is worthless. It is so bloated. The majority of the page is taken up with AI stuff, and it wants you to use it constantly. It has made the layout even more confusing - while before I felt like it was very intuitive and more Wikipedia like, now it's just added so much more junk and confusing elements. Wikipedia is way easier to use.
With this latest update, I'm done. I was already getting frustrated with the way pictures were handled. If you clicked on it, there would be various bits of information that covered over part of the picture. Then there was so much blackspace that it wasn't always that much more visible than in the article. You zoom in and it's barely better. Now, I tried to look at the picture it used for the cover image, which no longer shows up in the sidebar as well. I clicked on it, and it was much the same as it used to be, although the information/other pictures below now fades away. Good! However I tried zooming in, because it was still not a big picture. It not only barely zoomed in, but moved the maybe two pixels bigger image around with my cursor. So now I had a very vaguely enlarged picture of some people that bounced around as I tried to exit out of it. Cool!!!!!! Good thing I never use Wikipedia to look at things like art as someone who enjoys art history!!!
The AI is too much, the paywall is too much, the needing to have a separate account for it is too much. And now they have continued to just make the UI worse and worse. I'm done here. I'm so sad that this has gone this way. I'm so disappointed. They had something good and it's useless now. I'd rather use normal Wikipedia, and that's the first time I've said that in many years.
692 recensioner
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av JG, för 13 dagar sedanWas good, but is now actively harvesting data, you now need to login with a google account to use. Boo.
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av rayreynolds06, för 2 månader sedan"The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection."
If this is true then why require an account to use this extension? - Betygsatt 1 av 5av pandazorus, för 2 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av JFabianRamirezM, för 2 månader sedanEn la versión web no funciona, en la versión móvil te forza crear un perfil y loggearte con él. Atrás quedó esa idea de software gratuito. Deberían dejar su uso sin necesidad de login y a quienes quieran comprar su basura de IA ahí sí pidan usuario. Convirtieron un excelente addon en basura. Además de que hacen negocio con un wiki que ni siquiera crearon ustedes.
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Firefox-användare 6262239, för 2 månader sedanUsed to be great, now requires an email and sign-in. Sad to uninstall
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Firefox-användare 12248054, för 3 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av LL, för 3 månader sedanDisgusting that this once amazing app is now profiting on the free wikipedia. The developers should be ashamed of themselves. Uninstalling.
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Johannes Häusler, för 4 månader sedanIt really went down. what once was a nice skin for Wikipedia is now a really ducked up platform where Wikipedia does not profit. It DOES sell data and DOES have paid features so I dont think the extension is correctly disclosing such stuff, which is bad, especially in the EU
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Anvekeen, för 4 månader sedanCan't believe how bad this add-on has become. Shameful
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Frkid, för 4 månader sedanIt was such a good add-on. Shame it turned into this.. whatever this is.
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av sausje, för 4 månader sedanSadly this has gone down the drain. Forcing you to make an account just to sell the data for it.
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Firefox-användare 19929310, för 4 månader sedanThat you would take something as pure as free, open-access education, slap a skin on it and try to harvest people's data shows what a bottom feeder this dev is.
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Silvio, för 4 månader sedanForces you to create an account for no apparent reason. Disregard old 5 star reviews, this is trash now. Ensh*ttification at its finest.
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Recharger, för 4 månader sedanFinally reached my breaking point with this extension which used to be amazing. Making me register is the last straw. I'll miss the good old days!
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av DadManBlues, för 4 månader sedanThe latest version forces mandatory registration and sign-in. I don't see the point in that at all. I have around 2 dozen Ff plugins in use - none of them forces registration.
I'm sorry, I'll miss you. - Betygsatt 1 av 5av Firefox-användare 14209344, för 5 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av simurq, för 5 månader sedanNewer versions of the addon are getting worse with every release. AI addition is what ruins it, in my opinion. Standard Wikipedia looks prettier and loads easier without the addon's distractors.
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Sushiimi, för 6 månader sedanWikiwand has been great for years but unfortunately, as outlined by many other reviews, has gone downhill after shoehorning in excessive AI integrations and simply becoming non-functioning for basic usage.
- Betygsatt 2 av 5av NoxlynU, för 6 månader sedanThe old design was really modern and better than Wikipedia's, and there were many customization options.
However, the new design is way less confortable and customizable.
The only addition is intrusive AI.
Wikipedia is better without Wikiwand now. - Betygsatt 1 av 5av huianxin, för 8 månader sedanLike others said, used to be good. Now there's some useless new features. Stop spamming AI in my face. And worst of all, it stopped working! Keeps displaying "Article not found", making it utterly unusable. Way to ruin what was once a great app.
- Betygsatt 5 av 5av Firefox-användare 19567302, för 10 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Elfirya, för 10 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Howar31, för ett år sedantoo much useless features. settings are not saved keep resetting. and also ads