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A small collection of text-only websites

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Re: A small collection of text-only websites

#51
"Terence Eden's blog - add .txt to any URl."

For my textsites, I use the whole address, e.g., http://ynac.freeshell.org/Yuengling.txt and will often repeat the instruction to right-click on any link to follow. That way, navigation is strong and layout just that much more challenging.

Re: A small collection of text-only websites

#52

I think this site/list is more fitting: https://textonly.website/

Almost none of the sites in that list are actually text. They’re just minimally styled html/css.

Fun to think of it but I think my website actually got removed from that list because it has a logo on top of each page. It is available as “text only” (although not text/plain but text/markdown) by substituting the .xhtml with .md in the URL unlike some other pages on the textonly.website list, though :)

Re: A small collection of text-only websites

#53

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Also: https://lite.cnn.com/

I read these two all the time. I wish nytimes.com came in a text version, I hate the move to video. I was raised on newspapers not mtv...

The NYT api is really flexible. I made my own NYT ascii frontpage site. It works off the headlines - which is enough for much of my browsing. Then I can jump to the full article, or a scrape.

Re: A small collection of text-only websites

#54
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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!

OP here - sorry you got the drunk theme. That shouldn't happen by default. Had you visited my site before? Are you using an esoteric browser I might not have tested?

Re: A small collection of text-only websites

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On several of my previous projects I've been tasked with making the print broken, not just "disabled", to try and force people into the "happy path" where there's a download button. Despite the beforeprint event that would let me trigger the same process. (I've argued and lost that fight, more often than won it.)

In these fights, did they give the justification for the download button? I'm continuously frustrated by these types of things that go out of their way to break native functionality. Is there a way where they can get extra information and tracking on the user; is that the goal? To me the "happy path" is the one the user would naturally take, without needing to learn the quirks of each site.

Well, not to entirely leak what I do but the justification is... Salesforce. [0] Omni-anything is a painful, overcomplicated, JS and DB intense process. Generating some PDFs can take in excess of thirty seconds, just because it hits five different objects. And can only be triggered by JS.

[0] https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.sf_contract...

Re: A small collection of text-only websites

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post #37

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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!

OP here - sorry you got the drunk theme. That shouldn't happen by default. Had you visited my site before? Are you using an esoteric browser I might not have tested?

I don't recall visiting your site before, but that's not really indicative of anything(I've learned but to trust my memory).

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