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Post by oh_sigh »

andrewfromx wrote: post #187
thunfisch wrote: post #156

This is what the world needs. Seriously, I hate this trend to bloat up websites with the rage of a thousand suns. There is absolutely no value, but it increases bandwith usage, load times and CPU/RAM usage. News websites having "fancy, modern" websites actually make me think less of them. Fuck this web-bloat shit. The web is broken.

"This is what the world needs." maybe the world needed back in 1983 ted turner never to start up 24/7 news? Didn't and doesn't human DNA jive better with less news, less often?

Good point. CNN should put hours on their website and only serve news between 9am and 5pm.

Nobody needs to watch 24/7 news

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Post by [deleted] »

eljee wrote: post #129
hk__2 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s your affiliation with this site? All your submissions and comments on HN are about it.

I built the site because independent news is being increasingly censored/filtered out by monopoly platforms.

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Post by AJRF »

This has been top of hackernews all day. Funny how as we move further and further into the future, developing all these interfaces as we go, we still can't beat a format that has been here since the beginning.

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Post by mallaidh »

knz wrote: post #227
gravypod wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd pay $5/month for a reputable news site to provide this all year long.

http://www.npr.org ? It's not text only but it's considerably more minimal than most news websites, loads almost instantly, doesn't have auto play content, and is considered a reputable source. The BBC used to be similar but their international website is awful now (slow to load, more adverts, and less emphasis on actual news).

It's text-only when you use http://thin.npr.org

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Post by kevmo »

mattwoodnyc wrote: post #217
thunfisch wrote: post #156

This is what the world needs. Seriously, I hate this trend to bloat up websites with the rage of a thousand suns. There is absolutely no value, but it increases bandwith usage, load times and CPU/RAM usage. News websites having "fancy, modern" websites actually make me think less of them. Fuck this web-bloat shit. The web is broken.

This format is ideal in this context, but the web is far larger than a digital ticker tape dispenser. Some publishers are seeking to create a modern version of Life magazine. What do imagine that would look like? How about National Geographic? I love, for example, what the teams at The New York Times are doing to enhance stories with creative uses of the modern web. The web is not broken, it’s simply revealing that t…

This is the highest-impact format with which one can consume news, though. Magazines are great, but lots of people are just looking for a quick shot of the current news. This sort of UI is ideal for that need.

This is exactly why the Drudge Report has stayed relevant for 20 years.

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Post by [deleted] »

kevmo wrote: post #247
mattwoodnyc wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This format is ideal in this context, but the web is far larger than a digital ticker tape dispenser. Some publishers are seeking to create a modern version of Life magazine. What do imagine that would look like? How about National Geographic? I love, for example, what the teams at The New York Times are doing to enhance stories with creative uses of the modern web. The web is not broken, it’s simply revealing that t…

This is the highest-impact format with which one can consume news, though. Magazines are great, but lots of people are just looking for a quick shot of the current news. This sort of UI is ideal for that need. This is exactly why the Drudge Report has stayed relevant for 20 years.

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Post by amsheehan »

thunfisch wrote: post #156

This is what the world needs. Seriously, I hate this trend to bloat up websites with the rage of a thousand suns. There is absolutely no value, but it increases bandwith usage, load times and CPU/RAM usage. News websites having "fancy, modern" websites actually make me think less of them. Fuck this web-bloat shit. The web is broken.

My upvote was only for the first sentence.

Web infrastructure is not broken, it's just being abused. That abuse leads to some pretty incredible technology though.

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