Posted by gofiggy 1 day ago
So, when is the better desktop experience coming?
I kid, I kid. Well, kind of. There are features of Vector2022 I really like, and wish was part of classic Vector, like the search bar. I still can’t get used to the LHS table of contents.
Ironically Vector2022 has a much improved mobile experience compared to mobile-first themes like Minerva. It’s nice to have a fully-supported responsive theme.
Is Pixel going to be available in Gerrit?
At the foot of the page is a link to "The new Wikipedia appearance that took the whole village", with a boast about "We worked effectively with our editing community". Well, the technical improvements are fine, nobody minds if search works better. But regarding the look and feel of the skin, the way I remember it is, they did a trial rollout and consulted the unwashed masses of editors on lengthy talk page threads, and about half of us outright hated it, and they ignored us and only "worked with" positive people suggesting minor tweaks, because at that point it was a fait accompli and WMF was paying them to design stuff and they were damn well going to, whether we didn't like it.
All that said, the new theme does allow you to return to wide mode -- on any page on the site, there's an Appearance options panel in the rightmost column where you can switch from Standard to Wide.
Depending on where you are connecting from this is also a latency increase since you are no longer hitting geo-located servers.