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Maybe one of my favorite examples https://plaintextsports.com/ https://plaintextsports.com/ Another well known one and particularly interesting since it's one
by nonethewiser 1y ago
Maybe one of my favorite examples
https://plaintextsports.com/ https://plaintextsports.com/
Another well known one and particularly interesting since it's one of the most valuable companies in the world and this is their real website and not something they've just kept for historical purposes or something. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
I would pay good money to watch a clear-glasses-framed youngster pitch Buffet on turning the BH website into a progressive web app.
Lots of examples here (although many do have some amount of styling): https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html
- jmclnx 1y agoI am not a sports follower, but the site is very nice. It is a very nice quick goto when some friends start talking sports and I can pretend I care :) My favorite sites are: https://lite.cnn.com/ https://lite.cnn.com/ https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html https://text.npr.org/ https://text.npr.org/ Plus gopher and gemini :) Thanks
- SoftTalker 1y agohttps://lite.cnn.com/ https://lite.cnn.com/ for news. Especially on mobile.
- josteink 1y agoWow. That’s really nice. Almost good enough to make me consider it for my daily news skim.
- latexr 1y agoAlso https://text.npr.org/ https://text.npr.org/
- aspenmayer 1y agohttp://68k.news/ http://68k.news/
- munificent 1y agoThis one is a Godsend during natural disasters when power and wifi is out but you still have some cell access and want to know what's happening.
- _Algernon_ 1y agoThe (non-compliant) cookie banner covering half the screen kinda ruins the mood.
- SoftTalker 1y agoHmm, I don't see that (in USA, on Safari/iOS with no extra ad block).
- nonethewiser 1y agocall your representatives
- rpdillon 1y agoSee also: https://brutalist.report/ https://brutalist.report/
- nkrisc 1y ago> I would pay good money to watch a clear-glasses-framed youngster pitch Buffet on turning the BH website into a progressive web app. How about pitching an hour of work to make it easy to read on mobile? Not that I think BH cares, but in this day and age making it layout nicely on mobile is the least you can do and isn’t particularly difficult anymore.
- sugarpimpdorsey 1y agoMr. Buffett seems like the kind of guy that makes you shut your phone off during a meeting. When you're conducting 'serious business' in your Brooks Brothers suit and silk tie at the oaken table you'll have a real computer open anyway.
- nkrisc 1y agoYes I don’t expect to see the BH site in particular be mobile friendly, but there’s lots of text only sites that are terrible to read on mobile. By “mobile-friendly” I just mean set the viewport width to something reasonable relative to the font size.
- sugarpimpdorsey 1y agoMost of these sites predate viewport tags. http://stallman.org/ http://stallman.org/ is another one. Though that's more likely because your mobile device is full of non-free badware or something so why encourage it.
- rkagerer 1y agoThe "message from Warren Buffet" feels a bit slimey. They already have ads on their landing page for the same thing. That extra message comes across like a used car salesman. He could have phrased it to be informative but in a somewhat more impartial writing style.
- sugarpimpdorsey 1y agoAre you really that bothered by a text-only sales pitch (which has an old-timey "I sell vacuum cleaners door to door" charm to it), or would you have preferred a full page interstitial demanding you disable your ad blocker, with a size 1pt font "I'll do it next time"? The only thing funnier than this complaint is the thread on Quora criticizing this site, with the top post specifically demeaning the site's lack of a "back-end", postulating that manually updating half a dozen text-only HTML pages in MS Word poses an unreasonable burden to the site operators. I assume a CMS, complicated database, and mountains of JavaScript would have been a more effective choice. But what do I know? Plain HTML isn't subject to the revolving door of application vulnerabilities so where is the fun in that?
- zahlman 1y ago> this is their real website and not something they've just kept for historical purposes or something. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ Seeing "<font size=..." makes me wince a bit, but it sure is refreshing to see something like this in the current year. (Also, is the Geico ad hard-coded?)
- scarface_74 1y agoThey own Geico.
- scarface_74 1y agoThe NPR website was amazingly slow to load to be text only
- quesera 1y agoDepending on your definition of "amazingly", it was probably just a transient quirk. I load text.npr.org (and lite.cnn.com) several times a day. They both load in times well below the realm of remarkable. Just timed them: - text.npr.org 89/96/109 ms - lite.cnn.com 56/72/133 ms
- thm 1y agoPlus https://briefingday.com https://briefingday.com
- nonethewiser 1y agoLooks like this is your site - thank you for sharing. I like it. Brief and seems really neutral. Of course there is no such thing as no bias (eg always have to pick headlines to show at a minimum) but I think you do a good job. Any details on how it works anywhere? Also noticed this site from your personal site: https://biztoc.com/ https://biztoc.com/ I love the information density. By no means a text only site but I think it hits some of the same vibes. EDIT: lite mode of biztoc in-line with the text only theme: https://biztoc.com/light https://biztoc.com/light
- webspinner 1y agoRSS would be epic for that!
- flobosg 1y agoMore examples at: * https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/ https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/ * https://onepagelove.com/tag/text-only https://onepagelove.com/tag/text-only
- xnx 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/