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Text only news websites (2022)
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#112One issue is that news sites article content is written to maximise ad impressions. Ads inject between paragraphs typically so you need lots of paragraphs. You start with perhaps two paragraphs of actual information, then break it down into 4 or more and add more information about related topics. Add some opinions, maybe weave in links to related articles on your site, and you end up with 10 or so paragraphs instersp…
I've counted upwards of ten advertising insertions in WaPo articles. Between paragraphs.
On desktop, I'll nuke any interstitial element (including "related stories" and the like) on sites. The calming factor between post- and pre-edited sites is ... somewhat nuts. One of my faves was old-school Buzzfeed, where I nuked anything but the actual headline and feature story, which I'd called "Unbuzzed".
(And yes, "Buzzfeed" itself is mostly trash, "Buzzfeed News" was/is actually somewhat respectable. I generally didn't seek out the sites, but occasionally clicked through on links from elswewhere.)
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#113I get most of my daily news from ... Teletext [1]. I'm lucky to be in a country that still has it. I much prefer that format over news sites on the web: Headlines are often laid out in a list one entry below the other, which is easy to read through without having to scroll. Because pages are limited to 40 columns × 24 rows, every article is short and to the point. I don't usually read it on TV though but on a web-sit…
Austria: https://teletext.orf.at/ >
This is the better version, since it delivers actual text instead of png's: https://text.orf.at
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#114Check out https://markets.sh news. They are actually text only, from many different sources, clustered and summarized. It is really good to get a gist of what’s currently important without having to “read news” with the known nuisances that come with it. Edit, thank you for the feedback. Some clarifications: - we launched the news feature literally yesterday, it is MVP level so expect inaccuracies especially in the s…
I can't copy text from articles. Is that by design?
Sorry that must be a bug. Looking into it!
Re: Text only news websites (2022)
#115There's also http://text.npr.org/
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#116I quite like https://text.npr.org/
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! Yeah, I’m one of the founders. It’s Nextjs on Supabase. We launched the news clustering just yesterday so I thought it would be nice to get some stealth HN feedback for it. We are planning to launch an API (rss style) for the news next week where you can get temporal clusters and everything. Imagine having full access to all of Twitter trending but across all news sources. We are trying to filter clickbait, S…
Genuine question: I wonder why you didn't think to disclose your relationship with the product? I notice this a lot, and it ruins my perspective of the product. Haven't you seen people start their comments with "full disclosure, I made this" type sentences.
Was it a relevant suggestion for you? If yes, then what benefit does the disclosure provide? If not, then downvote and say so?
In this particular case, I think halotrope just didn't think the dislosure was necessary. They have a link to the website in their profile and aren't trying to hide the affiliation.
Full disclosure: I'm not related to halotrope in any way nor to the website in question.
Re: Text only news websites (2022)
#118Check out https://markets.sh news. They are actually text only, from many different sources, clustered and summarized. It is really good to get a gist of what’s currently important without having to “read news” with the known nuisances that come with it. Edit, thank you for the feedback. Some clarifications: - we launched the news feature literally yesterday, it is MVP level so expect inaccuracies especially in the s…
This is not text-only like text.npr.org but in the sense of not being stuffed with ads, autoplay videos and images
Ah. That explains why in Lynx all I see is a dozen instances of:
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#119I get most of my daily news from ... Teletext [1]. I'm lucky to be in a country that still has it. I much prefer that format over news sites on the web: Headlines are often laid out in a list one entry below the other, which is easy to read through without having to scroll. Because pages are limited to 40 columns × 24 rows, every article is short and to the point. I don't usually read it on TV though but on a web-sit…
We have teletext in Spain too, (several of them) but as a "Computer" alternative I use EFE's (state news agency) RSS under sfeed+uxterm with the Unifont font.
Pretty close to our different Teletext services.
Re: Text only news websites (2022)
#120I 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…
This is fantastic, now I can view news in Gemini all day. Thank you, we need more gemini sites or tools to convert HTML to it.
What are you using for a Gemini client? Lynx handles Gopher URLs, so I presumed it would be OK with Gemini, but no luck.
Any suggestions?