Text only news websites (2022)

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

I can think of a couple of reasons:

- He sees no point in adding another layer of abstraction and complexity to something simple.

- he's into retro computing, and old machines can't handle NNW.

- Fewer and fewer web sites support RSS, so using NNW limits his options.

- Sometimes you want to read the news from a particular web site, and not graze at a buffet.

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 summaries. We are using our own models and are in the process of tuning and refining them. Clicking on the cluster will give you the actual headline, titles and sources for each cluster.

- the ordering of the feed is super simple right now. We will improve the weighting based on recency, magnitude of the story, coverage, parties involved etc.

- This is not text-only like text.npr.org but in the sense of not being stuffed with ads, autoplay videos and images. Both a real text-only statically rendered page and RSS feed are in the works.

axios.com has almost only text, other than that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events is really good

Nice. Did you build this? If so, what's the tech stack you used?

I like the interface - compact and fast.