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Re: Show HN: Textnet.io – The Internet of Text

#11
I love the concept. But functionally - and especially because hyperlinks aren't clickable - you've recreated gopherspace. (Congrats - I love gopherspace).

Driving the world toward a simpler web is a good thing, no matter how you do it. In the meantime, I like to surf with lynx and links text browsers, which converts the entire rest of the WWW into a text-only experience. (And I'm not alone!)

Re: Show HN: Textnet.io – The Internet of Text

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Hi, I'm the creator of textnet.io. I hope this will become a global movement against bloated websites and useless styling. Looking forward to your feedback and happy to answer all your questions!

How about clickable links? Like that the site is very hard to use mobile.

Re: Show HN: Textnet.io – The Internet of Text

#14
post #5

What about Mathjax/Latex?

Works! Just updated the FAQ on how to enable LaTeX rendering.

Basically you need to use the browser extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-preview-p... and open http://textnet.io/readme.md instead of http://textnet.io.

Re: Show HN: Textnet.io – The Internet of Text

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post #13
post #2

Hi, I'm the creator of textnet.io. I hope this will become a global movement against bloated websites and useless styling. Looking forward to your feedback and happy to answer all your questions!

How about clickable links? Like that the site is very hard to use mobile.

There are several browser extensions available which activate the links. E.g. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-link/ikfmghnm...

Mobile is harder to solve. Haven't found a good solution yet. I guess we'll have to write an extra Textnet browser .

Re: Show HN: Textnet.io – The Internet of Text

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Hi, I'm the creator of textnet.io. I hope this will become a global movement against bloated websites and useless styling. Looking forward to your feedback and happy to answer all your questions!

The emojis didn't display for me, on iOS. Content-encoding issue? > It can also include emojis 😁🎉!

Forgot to set encoding in Content-Type. Fixed it now! =)

Re: Show HN: Textnet.io – The Internet of Text

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post #13
post #2

Hi, I'm the creator of textnet.io. I hope this will become a global movement against bloated websites and useless styling. Looking forward to your feedback and happy to answer all your questions!

How about clickable links? Like that the site is very hard to use mobile.

Also, turns out that https://insomnia.rest is a pretty good client for the Textnet and it automatically enables links!

Re: Show HN: Textnet.io – The Internet of Text

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Hi, I'm the creator of textnet.io. I hope this will become a global movement against bloated websites and useless styling. Looking forward to your feedback and happy to answer all your questions!

Typo: file extension of pandoc epub example is pdf not epub.

Thanks, fixed it!
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