Browsh
Dev tools
text browser
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
45 positive, 59 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 48 critical, out of 157 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Execution: 6 for, 25 againstIdea: 21 for, 7 againstPerformance: 2 for, 6 againstDesign: 4 for, 3 againstPricing: 4 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
Objections
Multi-gigabyte-style Go binary is heavy for a text browser.
From 1 comment
...aaand it's written in Go... So it's modern in that it won't run on anything but popular platforms, and text-based in that it shows you text using a huge, multi-gigabyte…
johnklos on HN
Unclear how it reduces bandwidth since it still downloads full pages.
From 1 comment
> Its main purpose is to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs. How does it reduce bandwidth exactly? It still has to…
bwag on HN
Privacy concerns with a service reading every character of pages.
From 2 comments
Yeah the Opera-style compressing VPN idea is definitely high up on my list. That's why I released Browsh along side text.brow.sh and html.brow.sh At the moment they only return…
tombh on HNNow that you describe it, yes indeed I can see the problems. I can't think of any other precedent, as most other proxies are least protected by HTTPS, wheres a Browsh service is…
tombh on HN
Requests
Support for Android.
From 1 comment
Which of the ARM downloads work on android?
hyperpallium on HN
Image quality improvement via chafa-style algorithm.
From 1 comment
The algorithm used in chafa for img→unicode would improve the image quality: https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/
Klasiaster on HN
Questions
How does it reduce bandwidth exactly?
From 1 comment
> Its main purpose is to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs. How does it reduce bandwidth exactly? It still has to…
bwag on HN
Alternatives named
lynx
From 1 comment
...aaand it's written in Go... So it's modern in that it won't run on anything but popular platforms, and text-based in that it shows you text using a huge, multi-gigabyte…
johnklos on HN
links
From 1 comment
...aaand it's written in Go... So it's modern in that it won't run on anything but popular platforms, and text-based in that it shows you text using a huge, multi-gigabyte…
johnklos on HN
elinks
From 1 comment
I'm not sure that's true, for example elinks doesn't support SNI: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527856
tombh on HN