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http://mini-news.com/2008/04/bye_bye_ads/ http://mini-news.com/2008/04/bye_bye_ads/ Reading that article made me stop caring in any way about this submission.
by corin_ 16y ago
http://mini-news.com/2008/04/bye_bye_ads/ http://mini-news.com/2008/04/bye_bye_ads/
Reading that article made me stop caring in any way about this submission.
- mahmud 16y agoAgreed, there are some crank elements to this, but it's better to give people the benefit of the doubt. If he re-tools this to some kind of sever-side Readability, a good chunk of people who can't use bookmarklets will jump on board.
- arethuza 16y ago"sever-side Readability" Maybe add NoScript like features as well. Does anything like that exist?
- inerte 16y agoYou would use? Seems "simple": crawl webpages, remove html tags from source, wrap blocks of newlines around <p>s, style accordingly (good, readable font and generous white spacing). Depending on the execution, this could be characterized as stealing other people's content, but anyway, are the above mentioned "features" what you want?
- Mini-WWW 16y agoNope, it's not that simple: The Unformatted Web you propose is simply too dull and boring! That's why the MiniRank Formula specifically degrades such TEXT-ONLY pages! http://mini-www.com/blog/mini_competitors/ http://mini-www.com/blog/mini_competitors/
- inerte 16y agoIt's a simple idea and simple to do. Other than the person I was replying to, I made no assumptions if you or anyone else would like. I really don't want to be dragged into this discussion with you, we have opposite personalities and I don't want to talk about the MiniRank Formula TEXT-ONLY whatever. Thank you for understanding :)
- arethuza 16y agoIt was just a thought - I find myself using Readability a lot and imagine there might be some interesting things that could be done with it (e.g. better support for things like iPads).
- Mini-WWW 16y agoHow one can use Readability for the cluttered site like Digg, if the latter practically stops low powered PCs at the very first stage, - downloading!!!
- Mini-WWW 16y agoinerte, your "crawl webpages, remove html tags from source, wrap blocks of newlines" means STEALING other people's content, while Mini-WWW's way does not! It only points to EXISTING simple pages! And yes, I do want such pages. To be able to read them effortlessly.
- Kliment 16y agoI do like how in the "links" section linked from the bottom, the source for each quotation is listed, with the quotation itself.
- Mini-WWW 16y agoCorin, I'm afraid you're jumping too fast: I wrote that article two years ago, and it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the Mini-WWW project!
- corin_ 16y agoThen why does your Mini-WWW news post, from July 2010, say 'My ultimate dream is an Ads-FREE Web' with a link to the article. That was you making a choice to link them together, not to keep them "absolutely nothing to do with [each other]". At least stick to your convictions and beliefs, however idiotic I may think they are, rather than trying to backpedal out of it.
- Mini-WWW 16y agoTo say that the current Mini-WWW's gradual ranking for simplicity is better that a more radical AD-FREE idea of 2008. That's all!