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by ddevault 2160 days ago
Can we please not have SPA's eat wikis, too? Text-only content does not need... (checking...) 6.3 MB of JavaScript to display (checking...) 3.3 KB of text. Blank pages with JavaScript disabled or in non-mainstream browsers is a really terrible experience for content so plainly simple to display.
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Wikis also don't need (or indeed, even permit) cumbersome Git and PR-based workflows just to get changes into the "wiki". Better for it to be a single-page app that actually implements a wiki, than to provide a service that doesn't actually support wikis but has no qualms about throwing the word around anyway.