Ask HN: What is your favorite way to read online content?

#1

Post by MaximumMadness » Thu, May 28, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

I've been spending a bunch of time recently browsing online content now that I'm at home a lot more.

I find that the reading UX between newsletters, news sites, Medium, Reddit etc is super varied.

Is there anyone site that makes reading content particularly enjoyable for you?

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite way to read online content?

#2

Post by mikece » Thu, May 28, 2020, 5:40 PM UTC

Hacker News, Twitter, and QuiteRSS

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite way to read online content?

#3

Post by excitednumber » Thu, May 28, 2020, 5:45 PM UTC

Android:

Fwiw, pocket is great. ReadEra is perfect for PDF reading.

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#4

Post by thelazydogsback » Thu, May 28, 2020, 5:47 PM UTC

RSS in InnoReader (web and Android)

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#5

Post by hrnnnnnn » Thu, May 28, 2020, 5:50 PM UTC

For longer articles I save them to pocket and read them on my kobo e-reader.

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#6

Post by mrob » Thu, May 28, 2020, 5:51 PM UTC

Firefox's Reader View, with custom userContent.css to fix the unnecessarily low contrast:

  @-moz-document url-prefix("about:reader") {
    body {
      background-color: #FFFFFF !important;
      color: #000000 !important;
    }
  }

In recent versions of Firefox this requires toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to be set to true in about:config

The most legible style is the style you're most familiar with, so "design" is almost always a negative. I don't care about your unique branding.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite way to read online content?

#7

Post by glaberficken » Thu, May 28, 2020, 5:52 PM UTC

I use pocket. It is installed by default in Firefox (my default browser). From there I save the articles I want to read. And then i read them on my Kobo eReader (which syncs pocket saved articles automatically). The perfect combo to save my eyes a few "back-lit screen hours".

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite way to read online content?

#8

Post by offline_always » Thu, May 28, 2020, 5:54 PM UTC

Offline, no cookies or logging in, from a cache under my direct control, requested from a disposable anonymized IP address, and without ads.

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#9

Post by ken » Thu, May 28, 2020, 5:55 PM UTC

For any text with more than a couple paragraphs, I always hit the "reader mode" button. If a webpage doesn't work with that, I'm not interested.

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#10

Post by etiam » Thu, May 28, 2020, 5:55 PM UTC

I like to read my online content as offline content. Paper prints FTW.