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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 stargrazer »

nickjj wrote: post #86

Question: When reading programming tutorials or a write up about a tech concept do you prefer if the article has a hero image or not? This would be an image loaded at the top which sums up the title of the post visually. On a related note, personally if someone has 500 blog posts I'd like to see them in a condensed bullet list so I can scan the titles super fast. I don't want to see images and have 10 loaded per page…

Is the engagement lead to extended time engagement, or is just click engagement? I remember, I think it was intuit, their knowledge base was a matrix of pictures with very little text. That obtained no engagement from me as I was unwilling to click into each every picture to see if it was relevant or not. I guess their click rate goes up, but their duration engagement goes down.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by basch »

billyhoffman wrote: post #82
basch wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Thanks for letting me know. aldaily works great in raw mode: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/raw?https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aldaily.com%2F Clicking on the "more" links which take you to the news articles also works properly as well. (you can get to raw mode by clicking "Force article view" and then "raw mode." I should probably expose that in other places) NewsWaffle tries to determine the type of page. Articles get disp…

Do the techmeme links click through?

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by shostack »

nickjj wrote: post #86

Question: When reading programming tutorials or a write up about a tech concept do you prefer if the article has a hero image or not? This would be an image loaded at the top which sums up the title of the post visually. On a related note, personally if someone has 500 blog posts I'd like to see them in a condensed bullet list so I can scan the titles super fast. I don't want to see images and have 10 loaded per page…

Technical marketer here.

I hate fluff. I can spot it a mile away. If you have a hero image that adds no value then don't use it. If it has a related screenshot with interesting or useful information in it (like a code snippet and resulting output that the tutorial covers), that might be useful.

Otherwise just... don't.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by moritz »

Findecanor wrote: post #44

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-sit…

Austria: https://teletext.orf.at/>

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by donio »

marban wrote: post #89

For business news: https://biztoc.com/light | topic-clustered: https://biztoc.com/hot

This is better than nothing but the news item links go to non-text-friendly sites. Many of the other sites mentioned also have the linked news articles in a text-friendly format.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by teknico »

Svip wrote: post #61
Findecanor wrote: post #44

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-sit…

Also available in Denmark (DR): https://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttv1.exe/110

In Italy too. Text-only version: https://www.servizitelevideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/solotesto....

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by donio »

freediverx wrote: post #3

Not sure of the premise behind this, so maybe I’m missing the point, but why not curate quality news sources and access them via an rss news reader like NetNewsWire?

I've been using many of the linked sites from the EWW browser in Emacs. I also use RSS for many things but I don't want that model for general news items. For that I prefer to have the snapshot view that the web pages provide.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by DeathArrow »

forinti wrote: post #87
DeathArrow wrote: post #84

What about using an RSS reader? Or looking at AFP or Reuters news streams?

I oversee some digital signage that uses RSS to add the day's news. We have two issues: there are fewer and fewer sources of RSS; and those that do exist frequently use meaningless titles like "Look at this!". I can't really blame the news channels, they don't get any revenue from these streams.

Thanks. I didn't know this. Last time I used RSS it was a long time ago (in Google Reader) and at that time it was useful.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by O1111OOO »

hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #2

There's also http://text.npr.org/

> There's also http://text.npr.org/

Lots of great sources in the link below. I already had my own list of the usual players but this link covers many more I didn't know existed:

https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/

The only site that I rarely see mentioned (or included in the link above) is : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/channel-561/index.html

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