On the Future of 12ft

Post by millzlane » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 8:38 PM UTC

878654Tom wrote: post #105

john-doe wrote: post #58

I used 12ft for some time and got tired of loading bloated news websites twice. Archive.today is a good alternative but means making copies of crap articles somewhere else, while I just want to read them once. Ultimately I recommend txtify.it, a service that uses Readability, as a more sensible solution. Bookmarklet: javascript:q=location.hostname+location.pathname;location.href=" https://txtify.it/"+q ;

Why not use the reader viewer feature of Firefox and Chrome? With Firefox I even like the fact that you can use text2speech so very long stories can be put on the background.

Post by kalleboo » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 3:24 AM UTC

fastball wrote: post #112

kalleboo wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

News publications also still think they're competing with each other. Like, it seems like each newspaper assumes you're going to subscribe to them and then go there every morning like it's the 1990's and get 100% of your news from them, and charge accordingly. If I'm going to pay for news it's going to have to be an all-you-can-eat deal like the music streaming services. I'll pay if it means that like 70% of the news…

Isn't Apple News doing something like that? And Twitter also has Twitter Blue, where they've done a deal with a bunch of sites so that if you click a link while on Twitter (and are subbed to Twitter Blue) you will have an ad-free experience while browsing the external site.