That said, I'm OK with it degrading like that. The text file is perfectly readable, and conveys the information within quite well. I even kind of preferred it.
So, yeah. Great job, OP.
Oh don't worry. They'll let you know. Any chance they get.
EDIT: On a less passive-aggressive note, I'll stop announcing my blocking of JavaScript by default when static content sites stop requiring JavaScript to read them.
And don't tell me you actually like default browser scrolling, my custom JS scrolling is much better.
Oh and don't worry about the load time, that only happens the first time, after that the 30Mb of content is cached so its fine.
:^)
I opened the site, saw two identical boxes of text with some ascii in the middle, read the first paragraphs.. then scrolled down and saw some license thrown in there...
Almost got too happy seeing a satire get so popular on HN. :(
I'm over Markdown and related formats for the web. We have a great ASCII format for marking up the web, and it's called HTML.
1. My text editor (Vim in this case) renders the text file in colors, and helps me distinguish different elements.
2. If I want, I can export to html.
Markdown and the like grew out of what people were already doing in plain text: dashes and asterisks for bullets, indentation, etc.
I would much rather write plain text, or minimally marked up Markdown or rst, than have to write <tags> for everything, especially for something like my text file that isn't really intended for the web, but can be converted if needed. html is not really meant to be read, but rendered. The various markdowns can be comfortably written, and read as is.
My 2c.