A small collection of text-only websites
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#32Why is this page so horrible?
It's clearly intentional, but I just can't think of a reason to intentionally make your website this unusable?
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#33Offering a plain text version of your website may seem like a novel idea nowadays but I remember a time when pretty much every web page had a printer-friendly version with little to no formatting. I suppose printing web pages has become passé, that is unless you're printing a food recipe. Thanks for putting together this list, it would be nice to add a short summary next to each link.
Reason is a bit different - print version was built in adblocker so they got rid of it…
Re: A small collection of text-only websites
#34Why is this page so horrible? It's clearly intentional, but I just can't think of a reason to intentionally make your website this unusable?
Have you tried a different theme? Perhaps you're accidentally on "nude" when you would be happier with "drunk". Or vice versa, no accounting for taste.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost none of the sites in that list are actually text. They’re just minimally styled html/css.
This entirely depends on your perspective/interpretation of “text-only”. To me, having only text as the output with no ads, videos, or images is “text-only”. It doesn’t matter how it’s presented as long as it’s just text. But I also see your perspective. You want plain defaults with white background color, black foreground color, and no formatting.
This thread is about text the MIME type. It’s not a subjective definition.
> The rules are simple - content which has the MIME type of text/plain. No HTML, no multimedia, no RTF, no XML, no ANSI colour escape sequences.
Your definition is fine for you, but it’s not what TFA is about.
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#36> Obviously a webpage without links is like a fish without a bicycle,
URLs are text. Anchor tags are text. The "link" part is a function of the content viewer. text/plain just happens to not trigger that function in most browsers, but there's no guarantee it won't. If I paste that plain text into an email, it's likely my client or the the receiver's is going to "linkify" it.
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#37Why is this page so horrible? It's clearly intentional, but I just can't think of a reason to intentionally make your website this unusable?
Have you tried a different theme? Perhaps you're accidentally on "nude" when you would be happier with "drunk". Or vice versa, no accounting for taste.
Oh there are themes!
Mine defaulted to drunk for some reason and it's so horrible I didn't even realise I could change it!
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#38I really enjoy using text.npr.org from my Kindle / Kindle Scribe. I'm really thinking about setting up a self-hosted RSS aggregator site that's Kindle-friendly.
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#39Can't get behind the design / UX of this site
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
This entirely depends on your perspective/interpretation of “text-only”. To me, having only text as the output with no ads, videos, or images is “text-only”. It doesn’t matter how it’s presented as long as it’s just text. But I also see your perspective. You want plain defaults with white background color, black foreground color, and no formatting.
This thread is about text the MIME type. It’s not a subjective definition. > The rules are simple - content which has the MIME type of text/plain. No HTML, no multimedia, no RTF, no XML, no ANSI colour escape sequences. Your definition is fine for you, but it’s not what TFA is about.
I feel like the article should've been called "plaintext-only websites" or something, because if you had asked me I would've also defined "text-only" as image/video-less websites