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Somebody once posted a well known news website with an alternate link that loaded instantly. Anyone remember this? I don't remember if it was WSJ, or NYT or som

Somebody once posted a well known news website with an alternate link that loaded instantly. Anyone remember this? I don't remember if it was WSJ, or NYT or something else.

saratogacx 8y ago
Likely not what you had in mind but news.yahoo.com is amazingly quick to load for me.
Zarel 8y ago
In theory, AMP pages should all load instantly, and most news websites have AMP pages. A lot of HNers hate AMP for other reasons, though; I think mostly Google's insistence on using their CDN for it, and for whitelisting mostly their own scripts for use in AMP.
- majewsky 8y ago
  > In theory, AMP pages should all load instantly In practice, AMP pages take a minimum of 5-10 seconds to load for me. Maybe Google is punishing me for my uBlock/uMatrix/Pi-Hole setup.
- icebraining 8y ago
  AMP loads "instantly" because Chrome preloads it, not because they're very fast. A simple page like [1] loads over a dozen JS files (including stuff like "amp-analytics"), which expand to over 1MB of code that has to be parsed. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-44802666 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-44802666
  - Zarel 8y ago
    Fair, but keep in mind that AMP loads scripts async, so the page is finished loading and usable well before stuff like amp-analytics is done being downloaded.
shakna 8y ago
A couple news sites have 'text-based' versions. Became popular as a way to give people in disaster areas with spotty signal a chance to find things out. These are some I found: [0] https://lite.cnn.io/en https://lite.cnn.io/en [1] http://thin.npr.org/ http://thin.npr.org/
- DoctorOetker 8y ago
  how do I get my browser/OS to modify link URLs when I go there so it prepends the right "lite" URL?
  - anoncake 8y ago
    http://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ http://einaregilsson.com/redirector/
- HereBeBeasties 8y ago
  Oh my God. It's like 1993 all over again, only with a 1000x faster "modem" and it is wonderful.
lioeters 8y ago
Maybe https://outline.com https://outline.com
lvoudour 8y ago
Maybe the USA Today site when accessed by EU IPs? https://eu.usatoday.com/ https://eu.usatoday.com/

Somebody once posted a well known news website with an alternate link that loaded instantly. Anyone remember this? I don't remember if it was WSJ, or NYT or something else.

saratogacx 8y ago

Likely not what you had in mind but news.yahoo.com is amazingly quick to load for me.

Zarel 8y ago

In theory, AMP pages should all load instantly, and most news websites have AMP pages. A lot of HNers hate AMP for other reasons, though; I think mostly Google's insistence on using their CDN for it, and for whitelisting mostly their own scripts for use in AMP.

majewsky 8y ago
> In theory, AMP pages should all load instantly In practice, AMP pages take a minimum of 5-10 seconds to load for me. Maybe Google is punishing me for my uBlock/uMatrix/Pi-Hole setup.
icebraining 8y ago
AMP loads "instantly" because Chrome preloads it, not because they're very fast. A simple page like [1] loads over a dozen JS files (including stuff like "amp-analytics"), which expand to over 1MB of code that has to be parsed. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-44802666 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-44802666
- Zarel 8y ago
  Fair, but keep in mind that AMP loads scripts async, so the page is finished loading and usable well before stuff like amp-analytics is done being downloaded.

shakna 8y ago

A couple news sites have 'text-based' versions. Became popular as a way to give people in disaster areas with spotty signal a chance to find things out. These are some I found: [0] https://lite.cnn.io/en https://lite.cnn.io/en [1] http://thin.npr.org/ http://thin.npr.org/

DoctorOetker 8y ago
how do I get my browser/OS to modify link URLs when I go there so it prepends the right "lite" URL?
- anoncake 8y ago
  http://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ http://einaregilsson.com/redirector/
HereBeBeasties 8y ago
Oh my God. It's like 1993 all over again, only with a 1000x faster "modem" and it is wonderful.

lioeters 8y ago

Maybe https://outline.com https://outline.com

lvoudour 8y ago

Maybe the USA Today site when accessed by EU IPs? https://eu.usatoday.com/ https://eu.usatoday.com/