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points by hatradiowigwam 18 hours ago | 0 comments
Like text.npr.org - there is also a CNN "lite" version too: https://lite.cnn.com/

I agree whole heartedly I wish more of the web were like this.

[–] 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 14 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]

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news