Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback. Here’s why

Re:Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback. Here’s... by meeby on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @12:06PM (#19432127)

I've built and been running https://dailypopulous.com/ for the last year or two for precisely the reasons mentioned in the article. It generates a static, downloadable "edition" every 4 hours from what's popular on social media as a snapshot. Small images, no video, summary content and no JS.

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Re:Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback. Here’s... by reaperducer on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:05PM (#19432837)

Seemed good until I got to the memes section. Then I was completely turned off.

If you have time, maybe add a version that is news only, without the social media stuff.

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Re:Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback. Here’s... by meeby on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:21PM (#19433022)

Well, it's automated based on what's most popular over the last 6 hours. The meme stuff is what people vote for. I could start curating it, but then it would lose the original point. The news articles are usually pretty good, the odd stupid thing goes viral and sneaks in but it's generally real news. Just ignore the pictures if that bothers you. A core concept of it is to preserve an unedited snapshot of opinion from a point in time, news articles can be deleted or edited, plus the top reactions to them as a historical record, like https://dailypopulous.com/2018-03-19-morning/ - it's an unedited newspaper based on what people actually read, which unfortunately does include memes these days.

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