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.

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hatradiowigwam 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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Uncle_Brumpus 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If only Brutalist had RSS. Especially the summaries page... a pity. Or maybe I'm too old school.

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amenghra 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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bch 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

See too: CBC lite[0]

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

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tocs3 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And no doom scrolling. There is a bottom of the page and no Next Page button.

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onefiftymike 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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cowlevel 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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

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.)

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forestry 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Oath. Fantastic.

	▲	lioeters 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Zwounds. Marvelous.

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cellsstudio 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Man, find of the day. This is such an refined way of viewing the news (and then stopping and going outside).

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

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.

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