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Show HN: Notforest - cleaning up the Web one page at a time
- namtrac 13y agoCool idea, a Chrome extension would be useful since some of us hides the bookmarks bar.
- rhubarbcustard 13y agoThanks and totally agree about Chrome extension, will look into that. Notforest has actually been knocking around for a couple of years now and is due a code update so maybe good time to add browser extensions too.
- vhf 13y agoGreat idea, works well on 4 sites out of the 5 I tried it on. Too bad it makes notforest.com completely blank and thus not readable at all. I'll keep it anyway !
- jscheel 13y agoTried this on a well-marked-up, html5 valid page. It ended up pulling one random piece of content from near the bottom. I realized that it was probably pulling the longest content on the page. Looking at the source code, that's exactly what it does. It removes forms, objects, scripts, images, blank links, divs, etc. Then it goes through paragraphs and tables and finds the longest content. This algorithm seems pretty good for long-form article content, but not for the marketing homepage I tried it on. Overall, pretty cool.
- rhubarbcustard 13y agoThanks for checking it out and, yeah, it was designed to work with blog posts and news articles and not marketing-type sites.
- rwolf 13y ago<3! Thank you for making this, and please please please don't "pivot" from a bookmarklet into another half-baked social network.
- rhubarbcustard 13y agoheh, absolutely no chance of that happening.
- StavrosK 13y agoHmm, what's the difference between this and Readability?
- bcoates 13y agoAll Readability does is replace the crap on websites with other, different crap. Unfortunately, this site does a much worse job of recognizing the content text on pages.
- JungleGymSam 13y agoIs it ironic that notforest.com is blank after using it?
- kyberias 13y agoWell, why is the text on your page unreadable then? Grey on white.
- cpeterso 13y agoNot only that, the text seems to be made of data: images?!