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‘Simple’ bugs get a bit more expensive than this… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group#2012_stock_trading_disruption https://en.m.wikipedia.org

• voidUpdate 1y ago
  whyyy does wikipedia not redirect mobile links to the desktop website when you have a desktop UA?
  • xigoi 1y ago
    Why do they have a separate mobile website at all instead of writing proper CSS to make one website work on all devices?
  • wodenokoto 1y ago
    Because people on desktops asking for the mobile site should be able to view the mobile site. The url specifically asks Wikipedia to serve the mobile site.
    • voidUpdate 1y ago
      Well when I follow a desktop link on my phone, it redirects me to the mobile version, despite the URL specifically asking to serve the desktop site, it just doesn't work the other way around. Plus I never asked to see the mobile site, I followed a link someone else posted
    • BeFlatXIII 1y ago
      Why do people spam the mobile URL, leading me to degraded reading experiences?
• vishnudeva 1y ago
  The scale is astounding. I was briefly interested in the person that caused the error then immediately realized it was irrelevant because if a mechanism doesn't exist to catch an issue like that, then any company is living on borrowed time.
• creatonez 1y ago
  See also: Every time a small error in a spreadsheet has caused a huge problem https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/ https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/