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> 5KB news article On what site do you find "5KB news articles"? Pretty much all news sites that I know of load a gigantic amount of useless and obnoxious Java
by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
> 5KB news article
On what site do you find "5KB news articles"? Pretty much all news sites that I know of load a gigantic amount of useless and obnoxious JavaScript, CSS, images, etc. with or without video.
- fnord123 7y agoNPR + rejecting cookies under their GDPR scheme makes the page a dream.
- c0vfefe 7y agoAlso note https://text.npr.org/ https://text.npr.org/
- GeekyBear 7y agoThere is still a text only version of NPR that is exceptionally lightweight. https://text.npr.org/ https://text.npr.org/
- MarcysVonEylau 7y agoThey probably thought they're pulling a number on GDPR compliance, but created the best news reading experience in process...
- ticmasta 7y agoHN comments? It's as much "news" as the vast majority of major sites...
- X6S1x6Okd1st 7y agocomments are a poor replacement for journalism.
- lliamander 7y agoBut surprisingly better than what often passes for journalism.
- c0nducktr 7y agoThere's CNN Lite as well. https://lite.cnn.com/en https://lite.cnn.com/en
- chrisfinazzo 7y agoI wish they would use more of that on mobile or even the old m.cnn.com. The more recent trend of "www-m.cnn.com" URLs is glacially slow, even when going through a Raspberry Pi.
- bradgessler 7y agoI created https://legiblenews.com/ https://legiblenews.com/ because of this frustration ... and took it all the way to the level where loading a page is exactly 1 request. The other frustration I’ve had with news websites is they don’t link to source material, so it’s impossible to dig into a topic and accidentally learn something.
- cambalache 7y agoCool site Brad.I havent heard of it.
- cmroanirgo 7y agoI like the way you make the categories. Finally, someone calling a spade is a spade. Eg. "Disasters and accidents" had disasters and accidents. It did highlight how much of our news isn't the most uplifting of topics however.
- gregknicholson 7y agoNice! This would be slightly more legible if there was a clearer distinction between the tags introducing each item and the text of the item itself. Also, it would be more usable if the dates in the URLs were numeric and international-style (ISO-8601 / xkcd-1179). But nice!
- thirdsun 7y agoI like it. However given your goal of delivering sane and lighweight news articles you might want to extend that mission to the selection of your sources and consider excluding some. For the Boris Johnson story you link to The Independent, which returns a 14 MB article (while autplaying is disabled in Firefox) and basically has become a collection of worst practices when it comes to user experience and web development. Surely there must be better sources for popular stories like these.
- gregknicholson 7y agoThe data comes from [Wikipedia's Current Events portal][1], so the site's author isn't directly choosing those sources. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
- tasty_freeze 7y agoI haven't looked at the actual data, but if I go to cnn.com, which I visit routinely enough, I imagine most of the assets are already cached. The ads and embedded video, though, are a bandwidth sink.
- pedantsamaritan 7y agoWikipedia Current Events portal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events is 40K for me with cached data.
- Nition 7y agoI think the point was the news article itself is only 5KB. The rest is website fluff.