[HN Gopher] Text only news websites (2022)
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Text only news websites (2022)
Author : michaelrkn
Score : 174 points
Date : 2023-03-26 11:20 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| crop_rotation wrote:
| https://lite.cnn.com is my go to source. Extremely minimal and
| can look at all headlines so quickly.
| anthk wrote:
| Lynx web/gopher browser and if you tweak it a little, you can
| open the linked images with sxiv for instance: -
| gopher://magical.fish - gopher://gopherddit.com
| - gopher://mozz.us - gopher://gophernews.net
| yosito wrote:
| I'm surprised this didn't mention Wikipedia's Current Events
| Portal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
|
| I also use teddit.net which is essentially a plaintext reddit
| https://teddit.net/r/worldnews
| nickjj wrote:
| Question:
|
| When reading programming tutorials or a write up about a tech
| concept do you prefer if the article has a hero image or not?
| This would be an image loaded at the top which sums up the title
| of the post visually.
|
| On a related note, personally if someone has 500 blog posts I'd
| like to see them in a condensed bullet list so I can scan the
| titles super fast. I don't want to see images and have 10 loaded
| per page. It turns something from a 2 minute effortless quick
| scan to dozens of clicks and potentially 20 minutes.
|
| However, in practice having images for each post seems to get
| more engagement (ie. people clicking things and beginning to read
| your article). I never understood why in the context of
| programming. I understand pictures are useful for hardware or if
| you need to make a diagram. I'm mainly talking about the hero
| image here.
| shostack wrote:
| Technical marketer here.
|
| I hate fluff. I can spot it a mile away. If you have a hero
| image that adds no value then don't use it. If it has a related
| screenshot with interesting or useful information in it (like a
| code snippet and resulting output that the tutorial covers),
| that might be useful.
|
| Otherwise just... don't.
| stargrazer wrote:
| Is the engagement lead to extended time engagement, or is just
| click engagement? I remember, I think it was intuit, their
| knowledge base was a matrix of pictures with very little text.
| That obtained no engagement from me as I was unwilling to click
| into each every picture to see if it was relevant or not. I
| guess their click rate goes up, but their duration engagement
| goes down.
| chazeon wrote:
| When GPT-4 with image recognition is available, i guess it will
| not difficult to build a GPT based text mode.
| sgtnasty wrote:
| What we need are more Gemini[1] sites.
| [1](https://geminiquickst.art/)
| stargrazer wrote:
| I suppose Lynx would be something similar. It is a console
| based web site browser, and as such, no pictures whatsoever are
| visible.
| wolverine876 wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35315130
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| halotrope wrote:
| 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.
| stargrazer wrote:
| I can't copy text from articles. Is that by design?
| halotrope wrote:
| Sorry that must be a bug. Looking into it!
| dublinben wrote:
| Comment
|
| The summaries for several headlines are completely bogus, which
| undermines any credibility that this was a reliable site. For
| example, the Lufthansa Strike blames a technical issue, not the
| strike that all linked articles discuss. Next, the Khazahstan
| election summary mentions voters in Turkey and Turkmenistan.
| There's also duplicated stories, and other obvious issues any
| human editor would catch.
|
| I suspect this is secretly powered by some AI that doesn't
| actually work all that well.
| halotrope wrote:
| Hi, thank you for the feedback. I should have added that we
| launched it yesterday so it there is still some quirks. Yes,
| we use language models to do the summaries, they are not
| perfect yet and the feed ordering also needs to be improved.
|
| Since you get the actual news headlines and teaser on the
| detail, we assume some inaccuracies are ok for now. The
| primary focus right now is clustering and a high-level
| overview over the news landscape. Especially to get
| perspectives about an event from many different sources.
|
| We are iterating quickly and expect this to somewhat stable
| and reliable by mid April.
|
| Would appreciate if you had a look back again then to share
| your feedback.
| francoma wrote:
| Hi, cool project! Which language models are you using for
| the summaries?
| nntwozz wrote:
| I can't find a way to delete my account in settings. How do you
| do it?
| halotrope wrote:
| Sorry, I will add a button right now. This was in the backlog
| a bit too long.
| _a_a_a_ wrote:
| Perhaps I'm missing something but for a text-only interface,
| why do you need javescript? I always disable it in my browser
| and your site shows very little without it. Ran it in a VM to
| allow JS see what it did and got "Application error: a client-
| side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more
| information)."
| halotrope wrote:
| Yes sorry I should have been more clear here. Text-only as in
| no ads, video, etc. i will add a static build without any
| javascript to make up for it!
|
| The site is focussed on financial data, charts and realtime
| updates. This is why it is javascript heavy despite visually
| simple.
| _a_a_a_ wrote:
| Ah, gotcha! Please don't add a no-js site on my account,
| save your effort for something more profitable.
| halotrope wrote:
| No worries, it is actually just a cdn-cached next view
| with a barebones layout on the feed. We really care about
| internet culture, bandwidth and consumption options and
| try to facilitate them wherever feasible.
| _a_a_a_ wrote:
| > We really care about internet culture, bandwidth
|
| I wish 99% of sites gave a damn about these things. Well,
| I approve, and good luck!
| halotrope wrote:
| Me too! Luckily the open web now gets competition from
| LLMs. Hope this will clean up things. Seeing all these
| sloppy pages full of popups, ads and shit typography
| makes me so sad
| reaperducer wrote:
| _This is not text-only like text.npr.org but in the sense of
| not being stuffed with ads, autoplay videos and images_
|
| Ah. That explains why in Lynx all I see is a dozen instances
| of: Loading This is also still loading.
| This will be loaded shortly.
| Etheryte wrote:
| This seems very promising. Have you considered adding an RSS
| feed?
| halotrope wrote:
| Thank you! Yes we are hoping to launch the Rest API and RSS
| within March
| Etheryte wrote:
| That sounds very nice, I've been looking for a good service
| like this. Is there a way to subscribe for updates so I
| know when new features are released?
| someuser54541 wrote:
| How do you retrieve news topics? Are you using some sort of
| news API or are you just scraping a ton of sites?
|
| If the latter, isn't that illegal or against their terms of
| service in some way?
| drstewart wrote:
| >They are actually text only,
|
| Interesting claim considering there are 276 image tags in the
| HTML: https://imgur.com/a/x9ODk0r
| halotrope wrote:
| The icons are super small but I get your point. Text-only in
| a way of no autoplay video, ads, big pictures etc right now.
| We are planning to launch true (like text.npr.org) text
| version and RSS as well.
| uxcolumbo wrote:
| Nice. Did you build this? If so, what's the tech stack you
| used?
|
| I like the interface - compact and fast.
| halotrope wrote:
| Thanks! Yeah, I'm one of the founders. It's Nextjs on
| Supabase. We launched the news clustering just yesterday so I
| thought it would be nice to get some stealth HN feedback for
| it.
|
| We are planning to launch an API (rss style) for the news
| next week where you can get temporal clusters and everything.
| Imagine having full access to all of Twitter trending but
| across all news sources.
|
| We are trying to filter clickbait, SEO spam as effectively as
| possible while keeping nuance to the dataset.
|
| Please sign up for an account or follow us on twitter if you
| would like to stay in the loop.
| Dalewyn wrote:
| Since you asked for some, here's my immediate 2 cents:
|
| Please change the slide out on the left to be visible
| permanently.
|
| I have 1920 pixels of horizontal screen real estate, and
| the page is quite literally half empty whitespace anyway.
| For what conceivable reason is that menu on the left a
| hidden-by-default slide out? It even hides pertinent stock
| information.
|
| Also concerning the stock information, please add some
| whitespace margin on the bottom. Chrome displays URL
| information on the bottom left of the window when hovering
| links and it overlaps and obstructs visibility of whatever
| stock ends up displayed at the bottom left of the window.
| halotrope wrote:
| Thank you for the whitespace suggestion too, will check
| that tomorrow.
| nntwozz wrote:
| If you add stocks to your watchlist it will populate the
| empty whitespace with a table containing Watchlist
| Movers.
| halotrope wrote:
| Thank you, the feedback is appreciated and makes a lot of
| sense! I have added a little pin icon on the bottom left
| of the sidebar to keep it open.
| nntwozz wrote:
| I like this, is your quote data live or delayed? Sparklines
| in your watchlist would be most welcome, plus better charts
| in general; candlesticks, range % between two points etc.
| halotrope wrote:
| Thank you! We have realtime data but IEX only, sorting
| the contract work out for at the moment to get tick-level
| realtime for US equities
|
| The sparklines and better charts are being worked on. We
| hope to get a new version out early April, right now
| focussing on the API and Chat functionality.
| jmclnx wrote:
| I just want to say "me too", the site is great. I rarely
| use twitter, but will follow you.
|
| But dumb question, what do I follow ? :)
| halotrope wrote:
| Thank you! Sorry, lol. @markets_sh
| basch wrote:
| Have you used Modo News?
|
| It would be nice if your interface sorted the sources by
| bias and let you side between different summaries. In the
| upper right corner of Modo you can swap between timeline
| view (seeing past incarnations of a story as it progresses,
| or lean view that let's you see various bias.)
| SpaghettiX wrote:
| Genuine question: I wonder why you didn't think to disclose
| your relationship with the product? I notice this a lot,
| and it ruins my perspective of the product. Haven't you
| seen people start their comments with "full disclosure, I
| made this" type sentences.
| tasuki wrote:
| Was it a relevant suggestion for you? If yes, then what
| benefit does the disclosure provide? If not, then
| downvote and say so?
|
| In this particular case, I think halotrope just didn't
| think the dislosure was necessary. They have a link to
| the website in their profile and aren't trying to hide
| the affiliation.
|
| Full disclosure: I'm not related to halotrope in any way
| nor to the website in question.
| rpgbr wrote:
| https://www.textonly.website/
| thazework wrote:
| Until a few days ago the best solution for text only + no ads +
| offline reading was a kindle subscription to whichever periodical
| you fancy. This is gone now.
|
| Nook still has a newstand store (for now?) but I haven't used it
| so can't comment on the formatting and UX.
| antiframe wrote:
| I still subscribe to text (and images, but no video), no ads,
| offline reading news sites on my Kindle. Not through the Kindle
| subscription but through a local downloader (Calibre).
| byyll wrote:
| Dutch: https://noslite.nl
| hoppyhoppy2 wrote:
| There's also http://text.npr.org/
| [deleted]
| O1111OOO wrote:
| > There's also http://text.npr.org/
|
| Lots of great sources in the link below. I already had my own
| list of the usual players but this link covers many more I
| didn't know existed:
|
| https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/
|
| The only site that I rarely see mentioned (or included in the
| link above) is :
| http://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/channel-561/index.html
| FunnyLookinHat wrote:
| This was a lifeline for me when we were on an unstable DSL line
| for a year!
| mananaysiempre wrote:
| Which I find intensely funny, because it's forced on all EU IP
| addresses as an ostensible downgrade, but since they've added a
| decent CSS snippet to limit the line width I actually find it
| superior to the "full" version.
| js2 wrote:
| It's mentioned in the article under "Other Sites".
| mproud wrote:
| I'm sure CNN has offices and studios in New York, but it is
| certainly still headquartered in Atlanta.
| brador wrote:
| Try https://skimfeed.com , it's my daily for tech news and how I
| got here.
| justaguy37 wrote:
| I quite like https://text.npr.org/
| bertman wrote:
| There's also https://neuters.de, a Nitter-like alternative
| frontend for Reuters.
| marban wrote:
| For business news: https://biztoc.com/light | topic-clustered:
| https://biztoc.com/hot
| donio wrote:
| This is better than nothing but the news item links go to non-
| text-friendly sites. Many of the other sites mentioned also
| have the linked news articles in a text-friendly format.
| [deleted]
| genericacct wrote:
| Commenting to save in my history, this is right up my alley
| k1m wrote:
| I run an experimental service to turn web articles into plain
| text (No HTML) by prefixing the URL with 'txtifiy.it/'.
|
| Doesn't work on all articles: https://txtify.it
| codazoda wrote:
| Suggestion... Assume "https" if it's not explicitly entered.
| stargrazer wrote:
| not necessarily native text, but a flowing list of news links:
|
| irc.libera.chat has ##hntop - updated as hacker
| news item cream rises to the top ##news - common interest
| international stuff ##alerts - earthquakes, electricity,
| ...
|
| maybe others
| marpstar wrote:
| Someone on here shared https://brutalist.report/ a few months
| back and I've been using that. Dead simple, no bullshit.
| UberFly wrote:
| So comprehensive my overload alarms start going off. Still
| though, good suggestion.
| westcort wrote:
| If you are in the US, this weather and news broadcast application
| is a good resource: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html
| dreen wrote:
| One issue is that news sites article content is written to
| maximise ad impressions. Ads inject between paragraphs typically
| so you need lots of paragraphs. You start with perhaps two
| paragraphs of actual information, then break it down into 4 or
| more and add more information about related topics. Add some
| opinions, maybe weave in links to related articles on your site,
| and you end up with 10 or so paragraphs insterspersed with ads
| and pictures. You can remove the ads and pictures but you can't
| remove the bullshit. We need a good AI tldr machine.
| dredmorbius wrote:
| I've counted upwards of _ten_ advertising insertions in WaPo
| articles. Between paragraphs.
|
| On desktop, I'll nuke any interstitial element (including
| "related stories" and the like) on sites. The calming factor
| between post- and pre-edited sites is ... somewhat nuts. One of
| my faves was old-school Buzzfeed, where I nuked anything but
| the actual headline and feature story, which I'd called
| "Unbuzzed".
|
| (And yes, "Buzzfeed" itself is mostly trash, "Buzzfeed News"
| was/is actually somewhat respectable. I generally didn't seek
| out the sites, but occasionally clicked through on links from
| elswewhere.)
| Dalewyn wrote:
| I don't need an automatic TL;DR machine to tell me news
| articles aren't worth reading.
| [deleted]
| freediverx wrote:
| Not sure of the premise behind this, so maybe I'm missing the
| point, but why not curate quality news sources and access them
| via an rss news reader like NetNewsWire?
| reaperducer wrote:
| 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.
| palata wrote:
| Do fewer and fewer websites support RSS? All blog frameworks
| have support by default...
| reaperducer wrote:
| _Do fewer and fewer websites support RSS?_
|
| According to the people complaining on HN, yes. It's been a
| common topic of conversation on this web site for the last
| five years or so.
|
| No RSS here: https://www.rfi.fr
|
| The New York Times does RSS, but among major news
| organizations, it is one of the exceptions.
|
| _All blog frameworks have support by default..._
|
| Good for blogs.
| hammyhavoc wrote:
| No, people just assume that they don't have one due to no
| RSS icon. `/feed` slug is standard for finding feeds these
| days.
|
| Equally, why not just use one of the many FOSS tools to
| scrape sites that don't offer RSS feeds and DIY your own?
| This is a long-solved problem; RSS remains wonderful.
| palata wrote:
| I love RSS. I actually believe that it may become more
| relevant in the future, now that AI is so good at
| producing noise.
|
| It will be more and more difficult to make a
| Google/DDG/Kagi search and spot the autogenerated crap.
| So maybe it will be time to manually select
| blogs/websites we like and trust. And RSS is amazing for
| that.
| hammyhavoc wrote:
| 100% my thoughts, mate. I definitely see it becoming the
| go-to tool for many in the future. It's got a lot going
| for it, including authenticated access to premium feeds,
| ergo people can monetize and allow their content to be
| consumed in a way that makes sense to the end user.
|
| Still one of my favourite things to emerge on the net.
| Especially being able to filter through feeds!
| donio wrote:
| I've been using many of the linked sites from the EWW browser
| in Emacs. I also use RSS for many things but I don't want that
| model for general news items. For that I prefer to have the
| snapshot view that the web pages provide.
| croisillon wrote:
| axios.com has almost only text, other than that
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events is really
| good
| billyhoffman wrote:
| I too was using text-only versions of sites like CNN, Reuters, or
| Christian Science Monitor[1], and they were fine. But what I
| really wanted was to turn any news website into a text-only
| website.
|
| So I build NewsWaffle, which for any website:
|
| https://github.com/acidus99/NewsWaffle
|
| * Automatically builds a list of news stores, separate from the
| navigational hyperlinks.
|
| * Detects RSS/Atom feeds to provide a more accurate list of news
| stories.
|
| * Uses Readability to show only article content on article pages.
|
| * Uses meta data like OpenGraph or Twitter cards to provide
| richer formatting, and to determine page type.
|
| It regularly converts 900 KB home pages or 1.2 MB news articles
| into into 3KB for links to news stories and 5K of text
|
| It does this by:
|
| * Using semantic tags like <header>, <footer>, and <nav> to
| determines which hyperlinks are navigational and which ones are
| likely links to news articles.
|
| * OpenGraph meta data to determine page type news stories and
| extra metadata.
|
| * A Aggressive HTML parser that strips out a ton of tags, CSS,
| JS, etc
|
| * Readability library to extract out the text of news articles
|
| I built this as a service in Gemini, so if you have a gemini
| browser you can try it. Otherwise, here is a HTTP-to-gemini proxy
| showing you what a NYT article looks like:
|
| Gemini link: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/
|
| NYT Homepage: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemi.dev/cgi-
| bin/waffle.cgi/li...
|
| NYT Article: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemi.dev/cgi-
| bin/waffle.cgi/ar...
|
| [1] https://www.csmonitor.com/text_edition
| muyuu wrote:
| I didn't know I needed this so much.
| sgtnasty wrote:
| This is fantastic, now I can view news in Gemini all day. Thank
| you, we need more gemini sites or tools to convert HTML to it.
| reaperducer wrote:
| What are you using for a Gemini client? Lynx handles Gopher
| URLs, so I presumed it would be OK with Gemini, but no luck.
|
| Any suggestions?
| billyhoffman wrote:
| For the terminal, I use amfora:
| https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora
|
| For a GUI, I use Lagrange:
| https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange
|
| Lagrange is sort of the Netscape of Gemini. It works on all
| the major desktop and mobile OSes. Personally prefer Elaho
| (iOS) or Buran (Android) for mobile
| wolverine876 wrote:
| Great!
|
| A request: In the linked NY Times front page, more formatting
| for the article list, maybe blank lines between articles.
| Visually, it's a challenge.
| basch wrote:
| Pretty amazing.
|
| I tested aldaily.com and had trouble navigating to get to the
| articles. Allsides.com worked. Techmeme.com did not work.
|
| gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-
| bin/waffle.cgi/links?https%3A%2F%2Fallsides.com%2F
|
| https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/li...
| billyhoffman wrote:
| Thanks for letting me know. aldaily works great in raw mode:
|
| gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-
| bin/waffle.cgi/raw?https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aldaily.com%2F
|
| Clicking on the "more" links which take you to the news
| articles also works properly as well.
|
| (you can get to raw mode by clicking "Force article view" and
| then "raw mode." I should probably expose that in other
| places)
|
| NewsWaffle tries to determine the type of page. Articles get
| displayed with content run through readability, and then the
| HTML is stripped down. If its a "links" page, like the home
| or section page on a news site, it using HTML elements to try
| and find links to news stories vs navigational links to other
| parts of the site. Part of that is looking for links with
| longer text, since link text to news stories tend to be a few
| words. This helps sort "About Us" from "New Fusion Experiment
| a Success"). I'll check into why aldaily isn't working
| properly
|
| Sorry I can't seem to reproduce the Techmeme issue. It works
| for me:
|
| gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-
| bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A%2F%2Fwww.techmeme.com
| basch wrote:
| Do the techmeme links click through?
| Wistar wrote:
| This is _excellent!_ Wow.
| js2 wrote:
| > If you're a Facebook user...
|
| > mbasic.facebook.com
|
| > Ideal if you're the kind of person who just quickly needs to
| check the feed and go away again. There's no javascript so it
| feels (and definitely is) faster and less bloated. The design is
| nicely old fashioned.
|
| I've been using this site for years but it's increasingly bit
| rotting and regularly serves broken links.
| mari1 wrote:
| Text-based news pages are better because they allow readers to
| quickly scan through and absorb information, without being
| distracted by flashy graphics or autoplay videos.
| andrewfromx wrote:
| no mention of https://legiblenews.com/ ?
| defrost wrote:
| (2020) !!
|
| .. and already dated wrt _Thomson Reuters Foundation Trust_ link
| ( news.trust.org ) which is now archived and replaced by
|
| https://www.context.news/
| [deleted]
| guestbest wrote:
| I've been getting a lot mileage out of safari's and brave's
| reader mode
| wolverine876 wrote:
| Try Firefox's, which applies to many more pages IME.
| [deleted]
| alphabet9000 wrote:
| i made an automated news site that keeps an eye out for
| "happenings". it starts by showing the last 6 links found and
| automatically adds to the list if something new is found.
|
| https://news.coffee
| eimrine wrote:
| I love RMS's daily news, his PoV is very close to my one so the
| link [1] is a great source of political news.
|
| [1] https://www.stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html
| CodeIsTheEnd wrote:
| For sports, ESPN does have
| http://www.espn.com/nba/lite/scoreboard, but most of the links go
| back to the normal website. It may have been been more robust in
| the past, but I don't imagine anyone works on it anymore. It
| seems like the developer listed in the credits
| (http://www.espn.com/espn/lite/credits) last worked there in
| 2002!!
|
| So if you're looking for a sports alternative,
| https://plaintextsports.com (which I made) works great! All the
| scores, play-by-play, box scores, standings, and schedules, but
| just no news stories. Blazing fast.
|
| (No, it's not technically "Content-Type: text/plain", it uses
| HTML and CSS. Yes, I know it's not necessarily easier to read;
| it's an aesthetic. Yes, this is shameless self-promotion.)
| abudabi123 wrote:
| Can you include the MMA leagues: UFC, PFL, ONE?
| rafael-mosca wrote:
| What a good experience is checking NBA info on your site!
| DeathArrow wrote:
| What about using an RSS reader? Or looking at AFP or Reuters news
| streams?
| forinti wrote:
| I oversee some digital signage that uses RSS to add the day's
| news.
|
| We have two issues: there are fewer and fewer sources of RSS;
| and those that do exist frequently use meaningless titles like
| "Look at this!".
|
| I can't really blame the news channels, they don't get any
| revenue from these streams.
| DeathArrow wrote:
| Thanks. I didn't know this. Last time I used RSS it was a
| long time ago (in Google Reader) and at that time it was
| useful.
| dredmorbius wrote:
| Whilst it's headlines only, FreshNews.org still exists (and after
| a scare last year has been updated to function with today's site
| engineering), and provides a dense presentation of (mostly tech-
| related) stories from 33 sites (default, customisable with a log-
| in):
|
| <https://freshnews.org/>
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| Findecanor wrote:
| I get most of my daily news from ... _Teletext_ [1]. I 'm lucky
| to be in a country that still has it.
|
| I much prefer that format over news sites on the web: Headlines
| are often laid out in a list one entry below the other, which is
| easy to read through without having to scroll. Because pages are
| limited to 40 columns x 24 rows, every article is short and to
| the point.
|
| I don't usually read it on TV though but on a web-site [2] which
| has transformed page numbers into hyperlinks, and given multi-
| pages a tab-like interface. There are still no images, no ads ...
| and especially no auto-playing videos. Perfect!
|
| Recently though, I've spent a lot of time in a hospital bed and
| it has been easier for me then to use the TV remote with one hand
| to check teletext than to use the tablet or smartphone.
|
| [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext>
|
| [2] <https://texttv.nu/> (Swedish SVT Text)
| oidar wrote:
| What a dream. I wish this was available in english.
| moritz wrote:
| Austria: <https://teletext.orf.at/>
| moritz wrote:
| This is the better version, since it delivers actual text
| instead of png's: https://text.orf.at
| anthk wrote:
| We have teletext in Spain too, (several of them) but as a
| "Computer" alternative I use EFE's (state news agency) RSS
| under sfeed+uxterm with the Unifont font.
|
| Pretty close to our different Teletext services.
| Svip wrote:
| Also available in Denmark (DR): https://www.dr.dk/cgi-
| bin/fttv1.exe/110
| teknico wrote:
| In Italy too. Text-only version: https://www.servizitelevideo
| .rai.it/televideo/pub/solotesto....
| agumonkey wrote:
| We should make an 'awesome-text-only' github repo with all these.
| yasenn wrote:
| There is `chubin/awesome-console-services`[0]
|
| Btw, Igor Chubin is the author of great CLI services such as:
| cheat.sh[1], late.nz[2], QRenco.de[3],rate.sx[4]
|
| [0] https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services
|
| [1] https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh
|
| [2] https://github.com/chubin/late.nz
|
| [3] https://github.com/chubin/qrenco.de
|
| [4] https://github.com/chubin/rate.sx
| yosito wrote:
| Ok. Courtesy of ChatGPT: https://github.com/localjo/awesome-
| text-only-news
| agumonkey wrote:
| bookmarked
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