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Text only news websites (2022)

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Re: Text only news websites (2022)

#52

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…

I can't find a way to delete my account in settings. How do you do it?

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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post #52

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…

I can't find a way to delete my account in settings. How do you do it?

Sorry, I will add a button right now. This was in the backlog a bit too long.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

#55

We should make an 'awesome-text-only' github repo with all these.

There is `chubin/awesome-console-services`[0]

Btw, Igor Chubin is the author of great CLI services such as: cheat.sh[1], late.nz[2], QRenco.de[3],rate.sx[4]

[0] https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services

[1] https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh

[2] https://github.com/chubin/late.nz

[3] https://github.com/chubin/qrenco.de

[4] https://github.com/chubin/rate.sx

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

#57

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…

Can you include the MMA leagues: UFC, PFL, ONE?

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

#58

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…

What a good experience is checking NBA info on your site!

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

#59
post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Me too! Luckily the open web now gets competition from LLMs. Hope this will clean up things. Seeing all these sloppy pages full of popups, ads and shit typography makes me so sad
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