[psacawa]

Good:

- Sidebar for navigation

Bad:

- Wasted screen space

- Other languages are not available as a simple anchor tag anymore. They are hidden behind <button> elements. It's annoying for readers who consult their own language and en.wikipedia.org in the same session. It breaks my bookmarklet to change languages, which depended on something like `document.querySelectorAll('a')`

[spartanatreyu]

> Wasted screen space

Don't fall for that mental trap. White space is not wasted space.

[autoexec]

Not always, but it often is. Zoomed to 200% the new design is fine though. Content fills the entire screen and the floating table of contents disappears. Works for me at least.

[bearmode]

And now the text is huge. Sounds like you either are sitting too far away from your monitor, or need to have your eyes tested if that actually feels comfortable.

[autoexec]

The text is huge, but it at least fits with screen. I do have the monitor set back, but not so far that text at 100% is unreadable.

[spartanatreyu]

That suggests to me that you're either not sitting the correct distance away from your display, and/or your display's DPI settings are wrong.

[autoexec]

I don't know if there's a "correct" distance, but I do have the monitor set fairly far back. Text is still perfectly readable at 100% it just doesn't fill the screen.

[askvictor]

Humans read best when a line is around 10 words long. Longer, and it's easy to lose which line you're on when you go to the next one. The sidebar collapses if you resize to a narrower window, so I wouldn't call it wasted.

[layer8]

Yes, switching languages not being a single click any more is a major usability regression. They should at least allow to configure a set of “favorite” languages that can be directly accessed.

[Fauntleroy]

Even in the new design the line length is way too long. I get complaints about wasted screen space, but you really don't want lines of text blasting all the way across the screen either.

[atsjie]

Fully agree. I always downsized my window to read a Wikipedia article (I use fairly large desktop monitors, but not a widescreen). The sentences were comically large making it really hard to see what the next line is.

Even in the new design they're still a bit larger than what I'd like.

[mike_d]

> - Wasted screen space

Don't worry, it will soon be filled with solicitations for donations.

[pontsun]

And if they ever decide to add side banners you could probably permanently disable them in your preferences, just as you can disable the top banner asking for donations.

[ilyt]

Also for some reason they made links even brighter blue

[philipphutterer]

it does not only break your bookmarklet, but even vimium [1] is unable to focus the language selection. this is awful.

[1] https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c