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Have you thought about branching out to other technologies such as fax machines, e-mails, sms messaging? I know WUPHF.com can do this magic so it can't be that hard to do.


Good catch xD


The comparisons show a legend but the keys are all the same colour?

Is that intentional?


Ah, it's not, will fix, thanks for pointing that out!


This is great! Is the source available?

A couple of suggestions:

  * Option to disable geographic location links

  * Option to disable general articles

  * Language options (include simple english)

  * Maybe an option to use the mobile version? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/)


Thanks for the suggestions. I will definitely implement some of them. Regarding the mobile version: I thought it would already use the mobile version as it uses the minerva skin of Wikipedia.


Just added Simple English as a language.


Minimalism code sure is nice but readability is nicer. Perhaps have a un-minified version?


Unfortunately, I don't have the un-minified version. The original code was written in 2004 during a short wiki contest http://wiki.c2.com/?ShortestWikiContest


This branch is 173 commits ahead of christinaa:master.


Is this something that could be self hosted in the near future?


Is this something that could possibly be self-hosted?


Haven't thought about it.


I hardly believe that anybody would use most of those environments on a daily use.


I’m one of them and we do. Why do you think we wouldn’t? They’re not lacking any capability, and we generally create them because they’re more efficient for our workflows.


Isn't the efficiency the concern of r/UsabilityPorn instead?


The biggest issue among my family and friends are the social engineering questions that strangers ask when on Facebook/Twitter/etc. "Hey what School did you go to as a child?", "What was your first car?". Those kind of innocent like questions that older generations just answer without thinking too much about.

That and explaining two factor authentication and password management, thankfully the latter is not much of an issue these days thanks to browser-integrated password managers like Bitwarden.

As a community trainer, I do a lot of explaining and development. I've found that simple, concise, straight-to-the-point dot points are the key to getting the message across. Perhaps have a short explanation about a topic, and the dot points explaining the fix, or helpful hints.

Definitely keeping an eye on this one and if I can contribute in any way I will.


> The biggest issue among my family and friends are the social engineering questions

That's a really good point, it should probably get its own section.

> Perhaps have a short explanation about a topic, and the dot points explaining the fix, or helpful hints.

Yeah; I tried to avoid long paragraphs but may've still gotten a little too verbose in some spots. The hope was that the table of contents would function as a sort of bullet point-list, where people could skip straight to the things they haven't already heard about.

> Definitely keeping an eye on this one and if I can contribute in any way I will.

Thanks!


I can admit that sometimes I don't bother with long commit messages, but this project takes the cake.

"OK", "OK but some bugs"...


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