>I went through the examples one by one to see if I could find any articles for reading at these sites, or whether they were purely visual sites. Keeping in min

>I went through the examples one by one to see if I could find any articles for reading at these sites, or whether they were purely visual sites. Keeping in mind the orginal discussion is about just reading articles where no automatic video playing is necessary (and presumably no graphics either). A user has no reference point to whether a site is going to be a visual-based site or a reading-based site if a blank page is served to them. On HN, I get a brief description of the site through a title and a link to the site. Here's my first opinion of each of these sites with the HN information I have to go off of (note: I often browse using /newest , so I'll ignore user comments for the most part as I'd likely try visiting the site before there are even comments on the HN post). isfiberreadyyet.com was posted with no description and was merely a link in response to an HN post. It could have been an entire essay about whether or not fiber is ready or even a simple Yes/No page like iscaliforniaonfire.com or isitchristmas.com which is what I was expecting to see when I clicked it. zencastr.com mentions recording so I assumed it would use the Web Audio API. I'm not given any further explanation of what the site does when I visit the web page. I'm only told to enable Javascript because I need to (and not why I need to), which isn't going to convince me to enable Javascript. belowthesurface.amsterdam was posted on HN with the title "Below the Surface – Finds from an archaeological project in the River Amstel". That sounds like it's going to be a lot of pictures with explanations of their history from an archaeological project in the River Amstel. >We can access the pages of text directly as json from the CDN The epitome of user friendliness for sure. All you need to do is know that you're looking for a "cdn" link in the Javascript file you access by opening up developer tools. Even my grandmother could figure that one out! blog.stgolabs.net was posted with the title "Linux v4.15: Performance Goodies". This sounds like it's going to be a blog about the Linux 4.15 update, specifically about performance improvements made. Again, the user friendly method of reading this information is to poke around in the source code and already have half an idea of what you should be looking for (in this case, the "meta - alternative" link). The point of working without Javascript is to be user friendly without Javascript. One way of doing that is to serve the user content, even with Javascript disabled. In the thread pricehipster.com was posted in, jazoom at least mentions that they have been using React/Vue so I can expect the site to be broken with JS disabled. My brief description is that people quickly glance at prices (taken from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17467842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17467842 ) -- it's the worst example on the list because it's the only one that isn't misleading and is expected to be a blank page before I even click on it.