throwaway2046 7 hours ago

Offering a plain text version of your website may seem like a novel idea nowadays but I remember a time when pretty much every web page had a printer-friendly version with little to no formatting. I suppose printing web pages has become passé, that is unless you're printing a food recipe.

Thanks for putting together this list, it would be nice to add a short summary next to each link.

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fhdkweig 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I recall on the morning of September 11, 2001, CNN had to completely redesign their site into a text-only version (no images or videos) just to keep up with the strain. Slashdot.org was the only site I went to that was able to keep functioning as-is.

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lisp2240 6 hours ago | parent [-]

https://lite.cnn.com/

	▲	djeastm 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I use this all the time. I wish every media outlet had the same.

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kiicia 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reason is a bit different - print version was built in adblocker so they got rid of it…

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al_borland 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have to wonder if printing has gone down in popularity, in part, because so many websites handle it so poorly these days. I will sometimes "print" to PDF to save an article I want to read or reference, so I don't have to worry about the site disappearing on me. The quality of these PDFs has dropped dramatically over the years. With some sites it's almost not even worth it.

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shakna 4 hours ago | parent [-]

On several of my previous projects I've been tasked with making the print broken, not just "disabled", to try and force people into the "happy path" where there's a download button. Despite the beforeprint event that would let me trigger the same process.

(I've argued and lost that fight, more often than won it.)

	▲	al_borland an hour ago \| parent [-]
		In these fights, did they give the justification for the download button? I'm continuously frustrated by these types of things that go out of their way to break native functionality. Is there a way where they can get extra information and tracking on the user; is that the goal? To me the "happy path" is the one the user would naturally take, without needing to learn the quirks of each site.