TL;DR — Faster News

Re:TL;DR — Faster News by MichaelApproved on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @10:32AM (#4814576)

Thanks! I didn't know about that site before and it looks like they have many contributors. I considered doing a bookmarklet like they do but I figured that I would need a critical number of people before it could be realistic to use.

In the meantime, I created a list[1] of popular stories from Reddit news sources. Each story links to a special hybrid page that allows you to write a summary on top while you read the story below.

[1] http://skimthat.com/unsummarized

edit: clarification

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Re:TL;DR — Faster News by mtrimpe on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @12:53PM (#4815333)

I read the tldr.io of this TL;DR service first.

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Re:TL;DR — Faster News by MichaelApproved on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @06:06PM (#4816784)

Do you mean that you tried the tl;dr bookmarket on Skim That? I just added a summary for Skim That using the bookmarket so you should see it now.

I really like how it uses line by line bullet point fields to help write the summary. I experimented with something like that in the past. It kind of works but it isn't as smooth a read as a paragraph of text but it does make the writing process easier.

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Re:TL;DR — Faster News by mtrimpe on Thursday November 22, 2012 @07:03AM (#4818455)

You confused me there, but I see now that it was actually me who confused you as I meant to reply to czzarr instead...

It seems that I helped inspire you nonetheless, which is great of course!

As for what makes tldr.io great; it's mostly the Chrome plugin which adds TL;DR icons next to the links on Hacker News.

They still need to work on enticing more users to contribute back though.

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