During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
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Re: During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
#2Several news sites offer text only versions.
More listed at https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites
It’d be great if there was some standard that allowed these to be easily found, and supported on the local news sites.
Re: During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
#3What you really want is a (mostly) JavaScript-free website. Run NoScript and cut out all the data broker bloat, allowing just a limited number of critical scripts to run. Adding LocalCDN will further reduce wasted transfers of code that you do allow. Then you can decide if you want to show images. The web will be much faster on a fast or slow link.
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#4Re: During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
#5Several news sites offer text only versions. https://lite.cnn.com/ https://text.npr.org/ https://wttr.in/ More listed at https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites It’d be great if there was some standard that allowed these to be easily found, and supported on the local news sites.
I miss RSS.
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#6Rich from a site that loads 4 trackers
Re: During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
#7Several news sites offer text only versions. https://lite.cnn.com/ https://text.npr.org/ https://wttr.in/ More listed at https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites It’d be great if there was some standard that allowed these to be easily found, and supported on the local news sites.
Thanks for sharing, i almost was not sure if the last part was sarcasm. Html itself was the standard, then when it got bloated we got rss. This seems like it’s not a problem of a lack of standards. It’s the company choosing not to promote it.
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#8check out reticulum and nomadnet, they meet these needs perfectly!
Re: During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
#9Several news sites offer text only versions. https://lite.cnn.com/ https://text.npr.org/ https://wttr.in/ More listed at https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites It’d be great if there was some standard that allowed these to be easily found, and supported on the local news sites.
I miss RSS.
I still use it. RSS is dead, long live RSS.
Re: During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
#10Several news sites offer text only versions. https://lite.cnn.com/ https://text.npr.org/ https://wttr.in/ More listed at https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites It’d be great if there was some standard that allowed these to be easily found, and supported on the local news sites.
Thanks for sharing, i almost was not sure if the last part was sarcasm. Html itself was the standard, then when it got bloated we got rss. This seems like it’s not a problem of a lack of standards. It’s the company choosing not to promote it.
RSS is just a list of links to webpages, maybe with summaries. The readers generally fetch those webpages and filter out the text, but every browser has equivalent functionality now. You can do it with literally any HTML page, though some websites try to fight it (since depending on the reader, it neuters ads).