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Ask HN: What are your favorite thin websites (text only or limited images)?
- dontJudge 10y agoreddit, craigslist.
- dmtroyer 10y agohttp://thin.npr.org/ http://thin.npr.org/
- maxxxxx 10y agoNice! But even they have a "read more" button instead of just displaying the article straight.
- wlkr 10y agoNormally those bug me a great deal but because the page loads so fast and the focus is on resource constrained users the `read more' option doesn't bother me at all. I'm constantly frustrated by JavaScript `read more' links though, which take an age to render the rest of the text on mobile devices which is where I do an ever increasing percentage of my reading.
- collyw 10y agoHacker News
- Veen 10y agoArts and Letters Daily https://www.aldaily.com/ https://www.aldaily.com/
- leejoramo 10y agoIf only they had RSS
- tedmiston 10y agoThe talk pages that Maciej (Pinboard) makes are refreshing. http://idlewords.com/talks/ http://idlewords.com/talks/
- basch 10y agohttp://techmeme.com/river http://techmeme.com/river http://mediagazer.com/river http://mediagazer.com/river http://memeorandum.com/river http://memeorandum.com/river http://aldaily.com http://aldaily.com was already mentioned http://scitechdaily.com http://scitechdaily.com aldaily sister science site http://hckrnews.com http://hckrnews.com https://longform.org https://longform.org https://longreads.com https://longreads.com .. https://redef.com https://redef.com doesnt fit the criteria, but its close, and i wish it had an option to turn off images. two i dont actually visit very often - http://www.jimmyr.com http://www.jimmyr.com http://popurls.com http://popurls.com .. as for page design itself. http://lucumr.pocoo.org/ http://lucumr.pocoo.org/ http://http2.info/ http://http2.info/
- publicfig 10y agois /river a concept or standard I haven't come across?
- CharlesW 10y agoYes, although I can't imagine many people would recognize the concept yet. http://scripting.com/2014/06/02/whatIsARiverOfNewsAggregator.html http://scripting.com/2014/06/02/whatIsARiverOfNewsAggregator... http://buzzmachine.com/2006/08/22/the-river-of-news/ http://buzzmachine.com/2006/08/22/the-river-of-news/
- leejoramo 10y agoI feel like Dave Winer was talking about Rivers earlier than that. I found a reference back to May 2005 from Nick Bradbury creating of FeedDemon http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2005/05/river_of_news_1.html http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2005/05/river_of_news_1.html
- CharlesW 10y agoI'm sure you're right! My goal was just to share a couple of useful references.
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- sogen 10y agoskimfeed
- maxxxxx 10y agoDoes craigslist count?
- tomc1985 10y agoCraigslist
- mwillmott 10y agohttps://www.gov.uk https://www.gov.uk
- pcrh 10y agogov.uk is surprisingly easy to navigate and use.
- wlkr 10y agoIt's often said but the revamped design is excellent and the designers should be commended. I used to have to assist my parents whenever they needed to fill in a government form online and my mum in particular found it stressful, with pages having all sorts of timeouts and conflicting instructions. A lot of services used to be very fragmented and lacked cross browser compatibility. They manage it easily themselves since the UI became much more accessible.
- bostand 10y agoWow, that site should be used in webdev courses. It is lean, functional and not in any ways bad looking.
- danwakefield 10y agoRelated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Mj7_0Lok0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Mj7_0Lok0 - Talk at TxJS about the UX design process They also have their manual online talking about some important aspects https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/design/form-structure https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/design/form-structure
- niftich 10y ago- BBC's old mobile site, discontinued in 2015 - https://braille.wunderground.com/ https://braille.wunderground.com/ - http://www.smh.com.au/text/ http://www.smh.com.au/text/ and any other news source that still bothers to make RSS-like versions - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index-100a.html https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index-100a.html
- ssorallen 10y agoKanye's clothing line, Yeezy, has an impressively minimalist site that works on desktop and mobile. https://yeezysupply.com/ https://yeezysupply.com/
- dom0 10y ago> minimalist shows absolutely no content except for a handful footer links without 3rd party JS.
- ssorallen 10y agoI have uBlock Origin enabled when visiting the site, and it works for me. What script are you blocking that loads images?
- dom0 10y agoNoScript by default blocks third-party scripts (of which this site has plenty). In this instance it's some JS from shopify that's required for basic functionality.
- ssorallen 10y agoFair enough. Post said "(text only or limited images)", which I thought this site, especially being a fully featured ecommerce site, fit well.
- dom0 10y agoOh, I'm not saying you should not have posted it, not at all (I don't do that). Just meant to show that minimalist design doesn't have to mean that it's technically clean or minimalist in any way.
- jbuss 10y agoIt's pretty minimalist in terms of design, which was the intent of the post I believe
- globalgoat 10y agohttp://sommarskog.se/ http://sommarskog.se/
- lenouvel 10y agohttp://ctbaplus.fr/dossiers_de_presse.php?choix_annee=2013&ssmenu=4 http://ctbaplus.fr/dossiers_de_presse.php?choix_annee=2013&s...
- cscharenberg 10y agohttp://amasci.com/ http://amasci.com/ - Science Hobbyist, the homepage of Bill Beaty. I've been perusing it off and on for 15 years and keep discovering neat things. First found it via "Evil Genius Hoaxes" http://amasci.com/hoax.html http://amasci.com/hoax.html
- tomcam 10y agoNational treasure
- kruhft 10y agowww.telehack.com - classic hacking adventure game.
- markplindsay 10y agoThis site about bicycle touring is so content-heavy it's ridiculous: https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/ https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/ Browsing journals "by locale" is the best armchair tourism on the internet.
- bcjordan 10y agoOn the same topic, the epic Ken Kifer's Bike Pages: http://www.phred.org/~alex/kenkifer/www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/ http://www.phred.org/~alex/kenkifer/www.kenkifer.com/bikepag... And in similar style from a similar era, Ian's Shoelace Site: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ (the Ian Knot will change your life, though I use the double-Ian Knot to never re-tie laces again).
- justusthane 10y agoAnd http://www.sheldonbrown.com/ http://www.sheldonbrown.com/
- rodolphoarruda 10y agoSteephill follows the same model. The website is the absolute reference for cycling fans when the professional season is on: http://www.steephill.tv/ http://www.steephill.tv/
- basch 10y ago
- compiler-guy 10y agofrets.com Straight out of the late 90s hand-written html, but by one of the greatest guitar luthiers alive, Frank Ford. Want to see exactly how one would restore a pre-war Martin Guitar? You can see it. Truly amazing.
- wycx 10y agoThere is so much good machining stuff there. I remember reading all the posts when I discovered frets. I am going to see if there are any new posts right now...looks like all the machining content has moved to http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/tiplist.html http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/tiplist.html
- copperx 10y agohttp://gwern.net http://gwern.net
- alva 10y agohttp://www.drudgereport.com/ http://www.drudgereport.com/
- machbio 10y agotext only - complete car review - http://www.cars101.com/ http://www.cars101.com/
- bryanmgreen 10y agoCan I say my website? http://bryanmgreen.com/ http://bryanmgreen.com/ As neither a professional designer or developer, I wanted a site that was very clean and easy to build (and adaptive) but shared critical information. The end result has made me quite happy.
- majewsky 10y agoI was going to complain about the unreadably thin text, but apparently that's the default font-weight. WTF. (And by the way, there's a typo in your font-family.)
- ThisIs_MyName 10y agoFont is too big and too thin, IMHO.
- dorianm 10y agohttp://perdu.com http://perdu.com A short domain only served with HTTP so it's useful to trigger all the wifi MITM login pages
- euyyn 10y agoThank you! I used to go to www.marca.com for that same purpose, but this is much lighter and is easy to remember.
- LordHeini 10y agoOne of the most read german blogs: https://blog.fefe.de/ https://blog.fefe.de/ Does not even have html headers :)
- cygned 10y agoAs someone said at 32C3 > The only website that loads on the Berlin underground railway
- majewsky 10y agoIncidentally, it also looks like a Berlin underground railway station. ;)
- anotheryou 10y agobut only readable with custom CSS
- cygned 10y agohttp://brutalistwebsites.com http://brutalistwebsites.com
- xiaoma 10y agoI can't believe nobody mentioned this given the site, but http://paulgraham.com http://paulgraham.com. It literally altered the direction of my life.
- NSAID 10y agohttp://www.metafilter.com/ http://www.metafilter.com/
- chasingtheflow 10y agohttps://daringfireball.net/ https://daringfireball.net/
- sdegutis 10y ago> PRICE: $8,500 When I was looking into advertising there, it was $2,000. Guess he's doing well. I don't envy him though. Being a full time blogger has to be one of the most soul-killing jobs. All that keeping up on the most boring and annoying bits of latest information, and repackaging it, all the while trying to not look biased. I just couldn't do it even if I wanted to.
- jwong_ 10y agoI was always under the impression that he's not full time. He posts sporadically, usually around big Apple news, and it seems more out of personal interest than dedication to his job. Plus, I don't see him as trying not to look biased. If anything, he completely disregards attempts to -- he frequently states that something is his opinion, that seems to be the appeal of the blog. That it's completely biased and all one man's opinion is what makes him so polarising.
- leejoramo 10y agoGruber has been full time for very nearly 10 years. http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/initiative http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/initiative
- sdegutis 10y agoBlogging is his full time job. All his revenue is through sponsorship, but he maintains a high reader count through active posting, which is why he can charge so much for advertising.
- tyingq 10y agoNot limited images, but I like the craigslist ui. It's not visually attractive, but it's intuitive.
- cpt1138 10y agohttp://wiki.c2.com/?WelcomeVisitors http://wiki.c2.com/?WelcomeVisitors
- cooper12 10y agoI really don't like the whole AJAX thing they did after they went down. Now if I visit in a text-only browser (w3m), I just see "[sping]" (the alt text on their spinner). Kind of sad for a static website, especially a wiki.
- nhaliday 10y agohttps://danluu.com/ https://danluu.com/
- tekklloneer 10y agohttp://foopee.com/punk/the-list/ http://foopee.com/punk/the-list/ Shows (mostly punk/rock) in the bay area. Straightforward. Up to date. Gets the job done.
- Mojah 10y agohttps://www.cronweekly.com https://www.cronweekly.com
- K0nserv 10y agoI'm very pleased with how my own website[0] has turned out. It uses no JS and a very small amount of CSS. I think it has just enough styling to give it a distinct look and make the reading experience pleasant on all devices. Pages average around 10kb 0: https://hugotunius.se https://hugotunius.se
- cygned 10y agoI like it, especially the colors. Would have added some margin to the top, though. But very pleasant. I recently rebuilt my blog and used similar ideas; minimal CSS, no JavaScript, static site generator. It's actually interesting to see that some (front-end) developers tend to have very minimalistic sites.
- n2j3 10y agohttps://tinyapps.org/blog/ https://tinyapps.org/blog/
- BoppreH 10y agohttp://slatestarcodex.com/ http://slatestarcodex.com/ https://www.gwern.net/ https://www.gwern.net/ https://metafilter.com https://metafilter.com (comments and best-of)
- icpmacdo 10y agoanother vote for https://www.gwern.net/ https://www.gwern.net/
- scheijan 10y agowww.ankhet.com
- scheijan 10y agowww.ankhet.com
- japaget 10y agohttp://www.numericana.com/ http://www.numericana.com/
- tomcam 10y agoMesmerizing and misleading. Looks like it was designed by the Dr. Bronner's soap guy (lists of links are organized by string length) but it turns out to be a giant buffet of bite-sized but well-presented scientific factoids.
- jcoffland 10y agohttp://www.textfiles.com http://www.textfiles.com It's got many of the classic text files and zines from my BBS days. Tons of nostalgia.
- bostand 10y agoWhile its only text, the odd layout and design makes it hard to read on mobile.
- p333347 10y agoNice content but had forgotten what the site looked like. It literally kills the eyes and gives a headache when the green on black index page suddenly changes to black on white text file page.
- jcoffland 10y agoAwesome text only weather. Recently posted on HN. http://wttr.in http://wttr.in
- gregopet 10y agoMy friend's site about games and pixel art is designed as an homage to old text adventure games: http://www.retronator.com/ http://www.retronator.com/
- p333347 10y agotvtropes.org. plato.stanford.edu, which is a philosophy encyclopedia by Stanford university.
- paralelogram 10y agohttp://lartc.org/howto/ http://lartc.org/howto/
- pokemon-trainer 10y agohttp://www.berkshirehathaway.com http://www.berkshirehathaway.com cracks me up
- pxlfkr 10y agoRIP http://ntk.net http://ntk.net Has it really been 10 years?
- dmsnell 10y agoendless.horse