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Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by hammyhavoc »

palata wrote: post #78
hammyhavoc wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, people just assume that they don't have one due to no RSS icon. `/feed` slug is standard for finding feeds these days. Equally, why not just use one of the many FOSS tools to scrape sites that don't offer RSS feeds and DIY your own? This is a long-solved problem; RSS remains wonderful.

I love RSS. I actually believe that it may become more relevant in the future, now that AI is so good at producing noise. It will be more and more difficult to make a Google/DDG/Kagi search and spot the autogenerated crap. So maybe it will be time to manually select blogs/websites we like and trust. And RSS is amazing for that.

100% my thoughts, mate. I definitely see it becoming the go-to tool for many in the future. It's got a lot going for it, including authenticated access to premium feeds, ergo people can monetize and allow their content to be consumed in a way that makes sense to the end user.

Still one of my favourite things to emerge on the net. Especially being able to filter through feeds!

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Post by wolverine876 »

billyhoffman wrote: post #62

I too was using text-only versions of sites like CNN, Reuters, or Christian Science Monitor[1], and they were fine. But what I really wanted was to turn any news website into a text-only website. So I build NewsWaffle, which for any website: https://github.com/acidus99/NewsWaffle * Automatically builds a list of news stores, separate from the navigational hyperlinks. * Detects RSS/Atom feeds to provide a more accurat…

Great!

A request: In the linked NY Times front page, more formatting for the article list, maybe blank lines between articles. Visually, it's a challenge.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by antiframe »

thazework wrote: post #13

Until a few days ago the best solution for text only + no ads + offline reading was a kindle subscription to whichever periodical you fancy. This is gone now. Nook still has a newstand store (for now?) but I haven't used it so can't comment on the formatting and UX.

I still subscribe to text (and images, but no video), no ads, offline reading news sites on my Kindle. Not through the Kindle subscription but through a local downloader (Calibre).

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by dredmorbius »

Whilst it's headlines only, FreshNews.org still exists (and after a scare last year has been updated to function with today's site engineering), and provides a dense presentation of (mostly tech-related) stories from 33 sites (default, customisable with a log-in):

https://freshnews.org/>

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