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How HN took it
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Design: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for reading in the terminal.
From 1 comment
This is fantastic for reading things on my terminal. Thanks for making this. Is there a way to make the url shorter? That will make it much more usable.
nafizh on HN
Plain text aesthetic appeals to the maker and commenters.
From 1 comment
I was thinking about how if I served in html I could include links and such, but I do like the aesthetics of plain text. It makes me feel like I'm reading a text file on some BBS…
adamgordonbell on HN
Objections
No caching makes pages slow to load.
From 1 comment
Hi, I created this. Most of my web browsing is reading text, so I wondered about stripping webpages down to plain text. I showed it to my boss at work and he suggested putting it…
adamgordonbell on HN
No links, so browsing around is limited.
From 1 comment
Hi, I created this. Most of my web browsing is reading text, so I wondered about stripping webpages down to plain text. I showed it to my boss at work and he suggested putting it…
adamgordonbell on HN
Converting arbitrary broken HTML to clean text is hard.
From 1 comment
I hear you; however, changing random broken html found on the web into a readable piece of plain text is not that easy. Think about old school layout done with tables, source…
derekzhouzhen on HN
Requests
Add caching.
From 1 comment
Hi, I created this. Most of my web browsing is reading text, so I wondered about stripping webpages down to plain text. I showed it to my boss at work and he suggested putting it…
adamgordonbell on HN
Support character set and encoding conversion.
From 1 comment
It seems a good idea but should consider also the ideas: * Character set, if you want to convert to ASCII, or other character encodings that the document to be converted might…
zzo38computer on HN
Include links, possibly as footnotes.
From 2 comments
It seems a good idea but should consider also the ideas: * Character set, if you want to convert to ASCII, or other character encodings that the document to be converted might…
zzo38computer on HNI was thinking about how if I served in html I could include links and such, but I do like the aesthetics of plain text. It makes me feel like I'm reading a text file on some BBS…
adamgordonbell on HN
Shorter URL.
From 1 comment
This is fantastic for reading things on my terminal. Thanks for making this. Is there a way to make the url shorter? That will make it much more usable.
nafizh on HN
Run locally from source.
From 1 comment
It seems a good idea but should consider also the ideas: * Character set, if you want to convert to ASCII, or other character encodings that the document to be converted might…
zzo38computer on HN
Questions
Can URL shorteners pass URL parameters?
From 1 comment
I think I could get this to work: ``` https://earthly-tools.com/t?u= ``` But any shorter than that would require a url shortener, or a different domain name. Do any url…
adamgordonbell on HN
Alternatives named
roastidio.us reader with cached full-text search of articles.
From 1 comment
The same newyorker article from my site: (free registration required) https://roastidio.us/topic/105469?fulltext=t I strip away all the bells and whistles, keep the main text,…
derekzhouzhen on HN