Text-Only CNN

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Post by gu5 » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 3:13 AM UTC

Re: Text-Only CNN

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Post by jrnichols » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 3:34 AM UTC

Wow, it's amazing how lite & fast web sites can be when they're not loaded down with images and advertisements and tracking cookies! Who would have ever imagined?

sarcasm definitely intended.

this is how I wish the web would be again.

Re: Text-Only CNN

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Post by wenc » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 3:46 AM UTC

NPR has one too

https://text.npr.org

Re: Text-Only CNN

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Post by Evidlo » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 4:19 AM UTC

Here's a compilation of other lightweight news websites as well as other services.

https://github.com/mdibaiee/awesome-lite-websites#news

Re: Text-Only CNN

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Post by singhrac » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 5:37 AM UTC

I read the title and thought CNN stood for convnet, and thought - didn't we see these in 2014?

Re: Text-Only CNN

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Post by zevv » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 7:30 AM UTC

I've been using this for years and years on my Nokia E71. Back in the days, a lot of sites had a dedicated mobile page, typically reachable on on the " rel="nofollow">http://m. URL.

Re: Text-Only CNN

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 8:07 AM UTC

jrnichols wrote: post #2

Wow, it's amazing how lite & fast web sites can be when they're not loaded down with images and advertisements and tracking cookies! Who would have ever imagined? sarcasm definitely intended. this is how I wish the web would be again.

This is how the web is for me all the time. I use a text-only browser plus some DNS tricks. Fast and reliable.

Re: Text-Only CNN

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Post by pie_flavor » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 8:11 AM UTC

Now, what'd make this actually useful is if it either used the same pathing or auto-redirected accordingly, so I could just replace 'www' with 'lite' in a URL, since I only ever visit CNN when I'm being linked there, and visiting the normal website causes my browser to hang.

Re: Text-Only CNN

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Post by _threads » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 9:16 AM UTC

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #7

jrnichols wrote: post #2

Wow, it's amazing how lite & fast web sites can be when they're not loaded down with images and advertisements and tracking cookies! Who would have ever imagined? sarcasm definitely intended. this is how I wish the web would be again.

This is how the web is for me all the time. I use a text-only browser plus some DNS tricks. Fast and reliable.

What about all those single page apps websites working more with JavaScript than with html ? Does it work well ?

Re: Text-Only CNN

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Post by schwartzworld » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 2:10 PM UTC

pie_flavor wrote: post #8

Now, what'd make this actually useful is if it either used the same pathing or auto-redirected accordingly, so I could just replace 'www' with 'lite' in a URL, since I only ever visit CNN when I'm being linked there, and visiting the normal website causes my browser to hang.

Like old.reddit.com