Ask HN: What are some of the best text-only websites?

I've spent most of 2018 either in very rural areas, foreign countries, or in "throttled-mode" on my US-based prepaid mobile plan.

My phone's processing power is really excellent, but of course the bottleneck with modern websites is the tons of pings back and forth over the network and the huge image sizes.

Please, take pity on me and send me some links for great websites that offer a text-only service or some other form of lightweight browsing.

Of course, Wikipedia, lite.cnn.io, and outline.com are life-savers :)

Harvard Law Review : https://harvardlawreview.org/

I'm also interested in more lite sites. Btw, your CNN link is not working. Correct link is https://lite.cnn.io

I know it'd probably break several sites... but your average news reading would be hugely improved.

I will say that https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/ is one of the best community sites I know of. It's very lightweight, looks good, works incredibly fast. As a dev, I'm really impressed.

And nowadays I find Reuters having very interesting informative writeups which rivals NYT, Guardian, etc.

No need to go into any of that trouble. Just install ssh on your phone and connect to any box with lynx/elinks/etc.

Works like a charm and is real snappy over any wireless connection.

If you are short of a box to ssh into, sign up for any of the providers of free shell accounts.

There are of course also a lot of native text only browsers like Instabrowser if you prefer an app. Then there are browsers using compression and proxies like Opera Mini.