Also, NPR has had a text only site for ages http://thin.npr.org
This is great! I've been reading NPR for years and never knew about this. Thank you.
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#92There seem to be no ads. How do they plan to make money with this?
Give it time. The original CNN site, many years ago, wasn't as slow and terrible as it is today. I'm not convinced history won't repeat itself if this version became popular.
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#93There seem to be no ads. How do they plan to make money with this?
given that the ads are likely to be blocked by the target audience of that site, either donations, or subscriptions seems to be a good answer.
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#94The 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.
Lol how I'd not being able to play any sound "problem solved?" You really reach down and plug your speakers in whenever it's time to play audio?
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#95Why not just use RSS? This is time and effort wasted.
Given RSS is old, text only and has XML its very lightweight, has good support and fast readers.
No heavy javascript needed as readers of RSS are often native apps or browser plugins
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Paper is rendered entirely server-side. Taking out a full-page newspaper ad is an attention-grabber. Taking out a full-page pop-up is merely an annoyance. Why does this perception exist? Why isn't digital space regarded on-par with paper space? Because of this, digital ads sell for much, much less than paper ads. And so ad-supported companies have to use 10x as many ads to get 1/10 the revenue. And these ads can gain…
It's also worth trying out http://www.brave.com if you want a lot of this bundled into a browser.
How can I get it to remember my exceptions to the Shield?
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#98I wish feedly.com (my RSS reader) had a light interface. It feels so bloated and slow.
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#99Why not just use RSS? This is time and effort wasted. Given RSS is old, text only and has XML its very lightweight, has good support and fast readers. No heavy javascript needed as readers of RSS are often native apps or browser plugins
> as readers of RSS are often native apps or browser plugins
That's probably why.
Most people can barely drive their web browser, and many tech people are reluctant to install new extensions, because of trust issues.
A web page, in a nice pure form like this, is fast, responsive, and easy to use.
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#100EDIT: 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, base64-js and similar libraries are still needed (though probably not in this case...) because window.btoa() only works on latin1 ASCII strings. Try giving it some arbitrary UTF-8:
btoa("\ud83d\ude0b") -> Uncaught DOMException: Failed to execute 'btoa' on 'Window': The string to be encoded contains characters outside of the Latin1 range.
(Edit: apparently HN doesn't either; changed to \u...)