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Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by pls2halp »

tptacek wrote: post #13

This is better than CNN.com, but the big problem with CNN is that it simply isn't very good. If you're haven't tried it again, let me again strongly recommend a subscription to the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, or the New York Times. You might be as surprised as I was, once I was free to click around the sites without thinking about paywalls, how much better the reporting is at real newspapers than it is…

I'm going to point out that The Guardian hasn't put up a paywall, but remains a 'real newspaper'.

There's also going directly to the AP(https://apnews.com/) for straight news articles, sans editorial, if that what you want.

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by skookumchuck »

Osiris wrote: post #19

The absolute worst thing about cnn.com is the auto-playing videos. I've been in quiet places and clicked a CNN news link only to have a video start blasting on the speakers. It's not only annoying but a huge waste of mobile bandwidth. Now I just need an extension that rewrites all CNN urls to this site.

My computer's speakers are not plugged in. Problem solved.

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by jagger27 »

vortico wrote: post #17
a9entroy wrote: post #4

Wow. After all these years of taking steps backwards, finally 100 steps forward.

Is there a collaborative community effort for "fixing" websites to make this "100 steps forward"? The relative ease and the large benefit of doing so make it surprising I haven't seen a list of lite websites maintained by volunteers.

Firefox's reader mode?

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by pvg »

a012 wrote: post #10

Does this belong to CNN? It's great to read news without clutter, just clear contents. I hope there are many sites like this, it saves you from load the whole page then click the reader mode or similar.

Seems to be using the same CDN with the same hostnames as regular CNN, has their logos, their content, looks theirs.

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by CaptSpify »

jagger27 wrote: post #24
vortico wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a collaborative community effort for "fixing" websites to make this "100 steps forward"? The relative ease and the large benefit of doing so make it surprising I haven't seen a list of lite websites maintained by volunteers.

Firefox's reader mode?

Is that a "community" effort? or a Mozilla effort?

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by earenndil »

ascom wrote: post #3

EDIT: As I wrote this, someone deployed a server-side rendered version of the site. Now the site is perfect. :) This site appears to load ~350 KB of JavaScript, which I think is a bit excessive for a "lite" text-only site. From the sourcemaps, I found a long list of libraries, including: * react * redux * redux-thunk * react-router * axios * base64-js (why not window.atob/btoa?) * core-js * fbjs * react-hot-loader (s…

FWIW the site still looks fine with noscript enabled.

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by jordache »

ascom wrote: post #3

EDIT: As I wrote this, someone deployed a server-side rendered version of the site. Now the site is perfect. :) This site appears to load ~350 KB of JavaScript, which I think is a bit excessive for a "lite" text-only site. From the sourcemaps, I found a long list of libraries, including: * react * redux * redux-thunk * react-router * axios * base64-js (why not window.atob/btoa?) * core-js * fbjs * react-hot-loader (s…

WTF? why any JS at all for something that's pure content?
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