points by wilkystyle 18 hours ago | 0 comments
Unrelated to the content of the article, but what a wonderful site text.npr.org is. It looks like a slightly enhanced version of my iPhone's reader mode and it displays instantly, scrolling with no lag, stuttering, or dynamic loading of page elements.
I wish more of the web were like this.
[–] hatradiowigwam 18 hours ago
[–] Uncle_Brumpus 15 hours ago
In a similar vein, I've been using https://brutalist.report/ for a while just to browse headlines.
All the links lead to the full regular pages, so the articles themselves aren't "lightweight" like the CNN Lite version is. I still like how it lets me quickly peruse many headlines from lots of different categories and only click through onto something I'm genuinely interested in.
I wasn't aware of CNN Lite, I will add this to my news bookmarks.
[–] soco 13 hours ago
If only Brutalist had RSS. Especially the summaries page... a pity. Or maybe I'm too old school.
[–] amenghra 18 hours ago
Bring back WML sites?
note: WML/WAL was a way to enable browsing a web-like thing on low powered devices.
For a bit of time, popular websites were available in two variants, wml and html (more info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol)
[–] chuckadams 13 hours ago
No who remembers WAP has any desire to see anything like it return. A 'lite' subdomain is far easier and more effective by not trying to reinvent the entire stack.
As for WML, I'd say transport-level compression made that pretty much academic.
[–] bch 17 hours ago
See too: CBC lite[0]
[–] tocs3 18 hours ago
And no doom scrolling. There is a bottom of the page and no Next Page button.
[–] onefiftymike 17 hours ago
I came across this years ago. It is pretty much the only news I will look at. They only update like 3 times a day too, so no incentive to keep coming back.
[–] cowlevel 15 hours ago
It was created in protest to GDPR - "see how terrible the web would be if we followed GDPR" - and backfired a bit, but apparently not enough to delete it.
[–] firefax 16 hours ago
a friend found it when fucking around with a DNS enumeration tool a while back.
lite.cnn.com is also useful on slow connections
(i post using tor.)
[–] VCFundedGenYer 16 hours ago
The Compuserve and Netscape ISP website husks also feature no-nonsense text-only news pages with 2000s-style renderings that are near-instant on any device.
68k.news also exists but has been broken for a long time. It's maintained by a retro computing youtuber who seems to have abandoned it or isn't paying attention to its brokenness.
[–] cellsstudio 18 hours ago
Man, find of the day. This is such an refined way of viewing the news (and then stopping and going outside).
I agree whole heartedly I wish more of the web were like this.