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Text only news websites (2022)
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#73I too was using text-only versions of sites like CNN, Reuters, or Christian Science Monitor[1], and they were fine. But what I really wanted was to turn any news website into a text-only website. So I build NewsWaffle, which for any website: https://github.com/acidus99/NewsWaffle * Automatically builds a list of news stores, separate from the navigational hyperlinks. * Detects RSS/Atom feeds to provide a more accurat…
Pretty amazing.
I tested aldaily.com and had trouble navigating to get to the articles. Allsides.com worked. Techmeme.com did not work.
gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/links?https%3A%2F%2Fallsides.com%2F
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/li...
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#74I’ve been getting a lot mileage out of safari’s and brave’s reader mode
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#75What we need are more Gemini[1] sites.
[1](https://geminiquickst.art/)
Re: Text only news websites (2022)
#76I too was using text-only versions of sites like CNN, Reuters, or Christian Science Monitor[1], and they were fine. But what I really wanted was to turn any news website into a text-only website. So I build NewsWaffle, which for any website: https://github.com/acidus99/NewsWaffle * Automatically builds a list of news stores, separate from the navigational hyperlinks. * Detects RSS/Atom feeds to provide a more accurat…
This is fantastic, now I can view news in Gemini all day. Thank you, we need more gemini sites or tools to convert HTML to it.
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#77not necessarily native text, but a flowing list of news links:
irc.libera.chat has
##hntop - updated as hacker news item cream rises to the top
##news - common interest international stuff
##alerts - earthquakes, electricity, ...
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do fewer and fewer websites support RSS? All blog frameworks have support by default...
No, people just assume that they don't have one due to no RSS icon. `/feed` slug is standard for finding feeds these days. Equally, why not just use one of the many FOSS tools to scrape sites that don't offer RSS feeds and DIY your own? This is a long-solved problem; RSS remains wonderful.
I love RSS. I actually believe that it may become more relevant in the future, now that AI is so good at producing noise.
It will be more and more difficult to make a Google/DDG/Kagi search and spot the autogenerated crap. So maybe it will be time to manually select blogs/websites we like and trust. And RSS is amazing for that.
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#79I 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-sit…
What a dream. I wish this was available in english.
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#80Check 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 copy text from articles. Is that by design?