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https://legiblenews.com/ https://legiblenews.com/ It scrapes headlines from Wikipedia once per day at 8p PST. It's encrypted. There's no ads. It loads fast, as
by bradgessler 9y ago
https://legiblenews.com/ https://legiblenews.com/
It scrapes headlines from Wikipedia once per day at 8p PST. It's encrypted. There's no ads. It loads fast, as-in one request. Your activity isn't logged.
I built this because I got tired of all the shitty tricks news websites play: obnoxious ads, "breaking news", auto-play videos, pumping megabytes of crap into your browser, lack of privacy, and lack of citations.
Legible news is boring. It's non-addictive. If you click on a link you might accidentally learn something about the historic context of a news story. I don't log anything because I don't care. Daily headlines delivered in one HTTP request (look at it in an inspector) over a CDN. It's fast. I hope you like it, but if you don't no worries, I built it for myself.
- ycombinete 9y agoStunning. Thank you, very much.
- Nothorized 9y agoIs the code open source ? I live in Europe, and it would be great if, with the same product, we could choose the time at which we want the news to be delivered, and the language in which we want it delivered.
- qznc 9y agoI made a similar one in german. At the bottom is a link to the GitHub repo. It relies on Cron and Neocities.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- bradgessler 9y agoIts not OSS at the moment. I've thought a lot about this use case. My vision is that a few KB of text is delivered once per day to whatever-device at a desired time. No more. No less. What language and locale would you be interested in?
- leipert 9y agoBoth the English and the German wikipedia, maybe something along the lines of: https://legiblenews.com/?l=de,en https://legiblenews.com/?l=de,en
- kxyvr 9y agoThanks for putting that up! Have any interest in piping that page into an RSS document?
- bradgessler 9y agoSure, I could do this within the next few weeks (time is my constraint ATM; technically this is simple)
- jboynyc 9y agoHere's a similar project that provides a lot of different formats: http://thecontext.net/ http://thecontext.net/
- twosheep 9y agoYour archive seems to be a bit out of date
- bradgessler 9y agoYeah, it misses a few months. I'm going to fix this and make the archives go back a few years.
- psynapse 9y agoHat tip to you sir. Bookmarked.