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I always plug my news website, https://legiblenews.com/ https://legiblenews.com/, when I read about the state of news on the web because I too feel this frustra

I always plug my news website, https://legiblenews.com/ https://legiblenews.com/, when I read about the state of news on the web because I too feel this frustration. It got so bad I decided to create a news website that: 1. Loads in one request. Seriously, load it in your browser with the network inspector open. One request. 2. Is private. I don’t care who reads it. I provide this as a public service and have no interest in running targeted ads. 3. Links to source content. This is the worst thing about news websites today: the articles summarize complex issues and rarely link to source documents because they want to keep you on their website and pump you full of more ads. I joke that “you might accidentally learn something if you click one of the links” because it loads Wikipedia articles. I get why people read paper news. It’s private, no pop-ups, and is fast. Legible News is as close as I could get to that. I hope you enjoy!

LordJZ 7y ago
Thanks, this looks great. I can only wish it had RSS.
- g0ran 7y ago
  Made one for myself: https://feed43.com/3068865104604836.xml https://feed43.com/3068865104604836.xml
baby 7y ago
I too thought about these issues. There are two major problems I see with news websites these days: - facts mixed with opinions - cherry picked and maliciously re-ordered facts The first one you seem to have taken care of The second one I’m thinking of some solutions: - random order (per visit) of news item on the page - each news item focuses on one information at the same time - each news item comes with “context”. This is the hard part because context can be cherry picked and ordered.
- powerapple 7y ago
  Do people read news about facts or opinions? I think the latter was actually more valuable. People follow their favourite columnists and reporters on papers because of their in-depth analysis and opinions on issues, rather than plain cold facts.
  - baby 7y ago
    But that is a major problem right? You are consuming digested news that is obviously biased. There is no way of getting out of your bubble if you consume news like this. There is a spectrum between difficult to consume raw news and completed digested news.
mucholove 7y ago
I like it! A bold or italic for the sub-heading would seal the deal for me. :)
einpoklum 7y ago
The style is nice, but the choice of content is pretty limited. I'm missing a lot of important (IMHO) items. I do like the focus on some world affairs at least.
viklove 7y ago
> Loads in one request. Seriously, load it in your browser with the network inspector open. One request. And this matters... why?
- dbtc 7y ago
  I think it's about the principle of it, or for people who like well-designed, or at least sensibly-designed things. If I'm going to read short bit of text then surely one request is sufficient.
  - viklove 7y ago
    Do you browse the internet with the dev tools open to the network tab? Seems like a weird thing to obsess over, considering 99.9% of people won't even notice how many requests you have. Makes it a lot easier to build a UI from a RESTful API (meaning more reusable code). Obviously I'm not suggesting making 100 tracking requests, but just fetching data over multiple API calls? Why the hell not?
m463 7y ago
I read hacker news via someone here's project: https://www.fullhn.com/ https://www.fullhn.com/ (I don't load the embedded third-party stuff)
- fallat 7y ago
  I'm...I'm amazed. Holy flip. This IS the future we wanted!! This is incredible. I'm actually not even going to use hn anymore. In fact I think this may be a hint at making better link aggregate sites in general!
johnchristopher 7y ago
I like it but what's the editorial line ? Who choose and write the headlines ? Which country is that from ?

LordJZ 7y ago

Thanks, this looks great. I can only wish it had RSS.

g0ran 7y ago
Made one for myself: https://feed43.com/3068865104604836.xml https://feed43.com/3068865104604836.xml

baby 7y ago

I too thought about these issues. There are two major problems I see with news websites these days: - facts mixed with opinions - cherry picked and maliciously re-ordered facts The first one you seem to have taken care of The second one I’m thinking of some solutions: - random order (per visit) of news item on the page - each news item focuses on one information at the same time - each news item comes with “context”. This is the hard part because context can be cherry picked and ordered.

powerapple 7y ago
Do people read news about facts or opinions? I think the latter was actually more valuable. People follow their favourite columnists and reporters on papers because of their in-depth analysis and opinions on issues, rather than plain cold facts.
- baby 7y ago
  But that is a major problem right? You are consuming digested news that is obviously biased. There is no way of getting out of your bubble if you consume news like this. There is a spectrum between difficult to consume raw news and completed digested news.

mucholove 7y ago

I like it! A bold or italic for the sub-heading would seal the deal for me. :)

einpoklum 7y ago

The style is nice, but the choice of content is pretty limited. I'm missing a lot of important (IMHO) items. I do like the focus on some world affairs at least.

viklove 7y ago

> Loads in one request. Seriously, load it in your browser with the network inspector open. One request. And this matters... why?

dbtc 7y ago
I think it's about the principle of it, or for people who like well-designed, or at least sensibly-designed things. If I'm going to read short bit of text then surely one request is sufficient.
- viklove 7y ago
  Do you browse the internet with the dev tools open to the network tab? Seems like a weird thing to obsess over, considering 99.9% of people won't even notice how many requests you have. Makes it a lot easier to build a UI from a RESTful API (meaning more reusable code). Obviously I'm not suggesting making 100 tracking requests, but just fetching data over multiple API calls? Why the hell not?

m463 7y ago

I read hacker news via someone here's project: https://www.fullhn.com/ https://www.fullhn.com/ (I don't load the embedded third-party stuff)

fallat 7y ago
I'm...I'm amazed. Holy flip. This IS the future we wanted!! This is incredible. I'm actually not even going to use hn anymore. In fact I think this may be a hint at making better link aggregate sites in general!

johnchristopher 7y ago

I like it but what's the editorial line ? Who choose and write the headlines ? Which country is that from ?