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Someone pointed out below, but in a comment way down in the thread, but CNN is actually who's behind this: https://twitter.com/CNN/status/906821174805630976 I'm not sure if the reason behind this is because of possible weak phone connections or that the hurricane is a good way to promote the text only site, but either way, huge shoutout to CNN for going forward with this themselves. I've thought for a while about scr…
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Because it's a separate site? I have no idea. It takes 30 seconds to convince yourself it's theirs, though, so I'm not sure what you're asking me.
How did you manage to convince yourself it's theirs? Why couldn't they just put it on lite.cnn.com? If you try to look up the whois for cnn.io, you only get: Registrar: CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. Registrar IANA ID: 299 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: Name Server: NS-24.AWSDNS-03.COM Name Server: NS-630.AWSDNS-14.NET Name Server: NS-1845.AWSDNS-38.CO.UK Name Server: NS-1268.AWSDNS-30.ORG…
Registering through CSC is difficult if you aren't a BigCo.
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This is what CNN looked like on 9/11: http://i.imgur.com/tqnVwp6.jpg All the major sites switched to something like this when the internet slowed to a halt. I assume they've always had a minimal version ready in case something like it happens again.
I was working at AOL Time Warner on 9/11 and our team helped out the CNN team to keep that site online. It was a crazy experience. I recall that Sun Microsystems had provisioned a huge datacenter room full of gear for another AOL project as a sort of "try before you buy" deal. We spent the afternoon kickstarting those machines and bootstrapping them as CNN content servers. It was a huge struggle just to keep everythi…
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.
Disable HTML5 Autoplay https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto... works for me at the moment. You never know when the blighters will change the format though.
Search for "Autoplay policy" and change it to "Document user activation is required"
I haven't test it on other sites but in Youtube works fine.
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This is what CNN looked like on 9/11: http://i.imgur.com/tqnVwp6.jpg All the major sites switched to something like this when the internet slowed to a halt. I assume they've always had a minimal version ready in case something like it happens again.
I'd pay $5/month for a reputable news site to provide this all year long.
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Shame that thin.npr.org does not have HTTPS
Why do you need to encrypt your connection to that site? No sensitive info sent.