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Text only news websites (2022)

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Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by halotrope »

dublinben wrote: post #36
halotrope wrote: post #6

Check 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…

Comment The summaries for several headlines are completely bogus, which undermines any credibility that this was a reliable site. For example, the Lufthansa Strike blames a technical issue, not the strike that all linked articles discuss. Next, the Khazahstan election summary mentions voters in Turkey and Turkmenistan. There’s also duplicated stories, and other obvious issues any human editor would catch. I suspect t…

Hi, thank you for the feedback. I should have added that we launched it yesterday so it there is still some quirks. Yes, we use language models to do the summaries, they are not perfect yet and the feed ordering also needs to be improved.

Since you get the actual news headlines and teaser on the detail, we assume some inaccuracies are ok for now. The primary focus right now is clustering and a high-level overview over the news landscape. Especially to get perspectives about an event from many different sources.

We are iterating quickly and expect this to somewhat stable and reliable by mid April.

Would appreciate if you had a look back again then to share your feedback.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by CodeIsTheEnd »

For sports, ESPN does have http://www.espn.com/nba/lite/scoreboard, but most of the links go back to the normal website. It may have been been more robust in the past, but I don't imagine anyone works on it anymore. It seems like the developer listed in the credits (http://www.espn.com/espn/lite/credits) last worked there in 2002!!

So if you're looking for a sports alternative, https://plaintextsports.com (which I made) works great! All the scores, play-by-play, box scores, standings, and schedules, but just no news stories. Blazing fast.

(No, it's not technically "Content-Type: text/plain", it uses HTML and CSS. Yes, I know it's not necessarily easier to read; it's an aesthetic. Yes, this is shameless self-promotion.)

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by _a_a_a_ »

halotrope wrote: post #39
_a_a_a_ wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps I'm missing something but for a text-only interface, why do you need javescript? I always disable it in my browser and your site shows very little without it. Ran it in a VM to allow JS see what it did and got "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)."

Yes sorry I should have been more clear here. Text-only as in no ads, video, etc. i will add a static build without any javascript to make up for it! The site is focussed on financial data, charts and realtime updates. This is why it is javascript heavy despite visually simple.

Ah, gotcha! Please don't add a no-js site on my account, save your effort for something more profitable.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by Findecanor »

I 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-site [2] which has transformed page numbers into hyperlinks, and given multi-pages a tab-like interface. There are still no images, no ads ... and especially no auto-playing videos. Perfect!

Recently though, I've spent a lot of time in a hospital bed and it has been easier for me then to use the TV remote with one hand to check teletext than to use the tablet or smartphone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext>

[2] https://texttv.nu/> (Swedish SVT Text)

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by halotrope »

_a_a_a_ wrote: post #43
halotrope wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes sorry I should have been more clear here. Text-only as in no ads, video, etc. i will add a static build without any javascript to make up for it! The site is focussed on financial data, charts and realtime updates. This is why it is javascript heavy despite visually simple.

Ah, gotcha! Please don't add a no-js site on my account, save your effort for something more profitable.

No worries, it is actually just a cdn-cached next view with a barebones layout on the feed. We really care about internet culture, bandwidth and consumption options and try to facilitate them wherever feasible.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by halotrope »

jmclnx wrote: post #33
halotrope wrote: post #12

Earlier 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…

I just want to say "me too", the site is great. I rarely use twitter, but will follow you. But dumb question, what do I follow ? :)

Thank you! Sorry, lol. @markets_sh

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by halotrope »

Dalewyn wrote: post #17
halotrope wrote: post #12

Earlier 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…

Since you asked for some, here's my immediate 2 cents: Please change the slide out on the left to be visible permanently. I have 1920 pixels of horizontal screen real estate, and the page is quite literally half empty whitespace anyway. For what conceivable reason is that menu on the left a hidden-by-default slide out? It even hides pertinent stock information. Also concerning the stock information, please add some w…

Thank you for the whitespace suggestion too, will check that tomorrow.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by Etheryte »

halotrope wrote: post #28
Etheryte wrote: post #26

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This seems very promising. Have you considered adding an RSS feed?

Thank you! Yes we are hoping to launch the Rest API and RSS within March

That sounds very nice, I've been looking for a good service like this. Is there a way to subscribe for updates so I know when new features are released?

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by _a_a_a_ »

halotrope wrote: post #46
_a_a_a_ wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, gotcha! Please don't add a no-js site on my account, save your effort for something more profitable.

No worries, it is actually just a cdn-cached next view with a barebones layout on the feed. We really care about internet culture, bandwidth and consumption options and try to facilitate them wherever feasible.

> We really care about internet culture, bandwidth

I wish 99% of sites gave a damn about these things. Well, I approve, and good luck!

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