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Creator here. It's exciting to see this back on the front page of HN! My poor little f1-micro instance is not holding up well against the traffic though I won't be able to migrate it to a bigger server today, but if you bookmark it and check back in a day or two, it'll be back up.

If you think this is cool, I'm working on a huge new thing with some former Firebasers and others. Follow me @_jwngr on Twitter (https://twitter.com/_jwngr) for a big reveal coming very soon!

Here is the original HN post for those who are interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16468196

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Super cool, we used to play this game in high school, wikipedia racing!

I have a bit of (unsolicited) advice for you on the graph. It's hard to read the graph because the lines and text are pretty close in color. I would recommend making the lines much lighter in color, or applying a glow effect behind the text so that they stand out more. It's a tough thing to tune, but I think it would make the graph more readable.

What exactly counts as a link? Because I linked Pope Urban II to Corinthian Leather and found no actual link between the penultimate article Leather Crafting and Corinthian Leather.

Go to the bottom of the Leather Crafting page and expand the "Leather" navigation box and the link to Corinthian Leather is in there.

I note they don't have that on mobile. Not trying to be pedantic but I think potentially more interesting though lengthier connections would be made if links had to be within the text content of the article itself.

I think the result should also show where the links are in the pages. It's only two steps from where I live to where I was born even though the two towns are in different countries. But it goes via the page for Demonym and the page for where I live doesn't seem to have a link to Demonym even when I examine the HTML.

I second this and want to add that I think in addition to saying where on the page it was found it should also link to the revision of each of the articles it was found, in case any of the articles have been edited since.

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