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William Turrell
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William Turrell is a personal blog at blog.wturrell.co.uk about web and programming. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Text Only News Websites”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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2022–2024first – last linked?
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- Text Only News Websites5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-02-24
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I've been looking into how to survive low bandwidth/high latency/frequent disconnecting internet, because we may need to save money at home and temporarily switch to an unlimited 2G speed (64kbit) cell data plan as our primary internet for a few months. (Red Pocket's $7/mo. 1GB GSMA plan paid annually.) Not only is Red Pocket notoriously bad at limiting both bandwidth and are horrible with latency, we also live far…
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on “Engineering for Slow Internet”Submitted Text Only News Websites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've used those in the past, but have switched to the CBC text only site [0] being my go-to. I found it via a nice blog post talking about text-only news sites [1] which describes the CBC pages' advantages as follows: "1) fast-loading; 2) a world news page; 3) high-quality: includes stories from Reuters and Associated Press; 4) uniquely, a button to allow to you load any individual images you wish to view; 5) links…
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on “Tell HN: News sites may have a “lite” version for low-bandwidth users”There are a number of text-only news sites. Aside from NPR, 68k News, CNN, and the Christian Science Monitor: < https://blog.wturrell.co.uk/text-only-news-websites/ > < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35313232 >
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on “Have a complaint about CVS? So do pharmacists: Many just walked out”Worth sharing these here: https://blog.wturrell.co.uk/text-only-news-websites/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35313232
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on “Show HN: TxtNet Browser – Browse the Web over SMS, No Wi-Fi/Mobile Data Needed”Answering the immediate question: KPIs. The company is prepping for an IPO 2H2023,[1] trying to juice engagement, advertising, and revenue stats, and is well down the enshittification track: < https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys > (Doctorow's describing a different site, but the dynamic is identical in cause and consequence.) As to what to do about it: - I'm pretty sure RES (Reddit Enhancement S…
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on “Ask HN: Why does Reddit force you login to disable auto play?”