Cool concept. I built something very similar [1] but as a native iOS app in an attempt to cut down on my doomscrolling, but it turns out it’s hard to get my brain to read plain text when there’s a plethora of dopamine overloading video apps available.

1. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/egghead-scroll-learn/id6630364...

Back when Wikipedia was new people had a tendency to spend all day in it clicking deeper and deeper. It was called "ratholing."

It was timewasting or avoidant behavior for sure, and often described negatively. But at least you were learning something.

Silicon Valley then spent the next few decades trying to understand that behavior so they could isolate it, strip all positive value out of it, and make it highly profitable.

With that domain name, I expected to see this Grok-based mutation of Wikipedia. I guess, the "x" just has a negative association with me now.

It took a while to load but once I was in I found it like reading a magazine. I was expecting it to be more of a Tiktok UX.

It's kind of like the opposite to my Wikipedia project Redactle.net which takes a lot of effort.

OP, since you're encountering load issues I would suggest narrowing your corpus to Wikipedia vital level 3 and caching all the content since it's only 1000 articles.

This is unfortunately loading very, very slowly for me.

An issue I have with these apps that claim to be for doomscrolling is that you don't open apps like Instagram or Facebook to doomscroll, you open them to check messages or stories. The doomscrolling is an afterthought. These things assume you can realize you're doomscrolling and not only break out of it, but choose to hypnotize yourself in their app.

> you will likely see NSFW content. Please only continue if you're an adult.

Should be: Please only continue if you're not at work.

I wonder if this would be a "better" way to build this thing: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/duckdb-iceberg-browser-s3...

DuckDB loaded in the browser via WebAssembly and Parquet files in S3.

This is really cool. And in only 500 lines of code is really impressive. I would have thought this was much more.

I wonder what the cognitive difference is between the link to link addictive clicking on wikipedia and doomscrolling? I assume doomscrolling is even more pernicious because it's the lowest possible level of friction. I'm sure somebody has done studies.