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this [load image] button is so respectful and considerate, such a pleasant surprise to find on a random website in 2024's internet

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I'm realising that this is CBC's "lite" website, similar to those of CNN (<https://lite.cnn.com>) and NPR (<https://text.npr.org/>).

Mind that these aren't perfect (I've been working on an improved, "sanified", CNN extractor, as described here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535359>), but are a breath of fresh air compared with bloated sites, and almost always work well with terminal-mode browsers (w3m, lynx, elinks2, etc.)

CBC have release notes for this site (launched in 2021), here:

<https://medium.com/cbc-digital-labs/cbc-lite-release-notes-c...>

Thanks for posting this comment. I went to the link, didn't see any images, and loaded up the full strength cbc page to see the images (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-tiny-mobile-h...). I came back to post the link and learned something new from your comment instead!

That was my immediate response. Best web design in a long time. Instant bookmark (technically, WP landing homepage links)

This and https://neuters.de/ (Reuters Plaintext) are the best developments of the last half a decade in WWW news.

A chief difference is that the CBC's lite page is the work of the CBC, whereas Neuters, as with Nitter (its inspiration), Invididious and Piped (both YouTube front-ends), Teddit (Reddit), Bibliogram (defunct) and Proxigram (Instagram), and more[1], are alternative front-ends to services.

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Notes:

1. Libredirect has a collection of such alternatives, for YouTube Music, Twitter, Bluesky, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitch, TikTok, Instagram, IMDb, Bilibili, Pixiv, Fandom, Imgur, Pinterest, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Tekstowo, Genius, Medium, Quora, GitHub, GitLab, Stack Overflow, Reuters, Snopes, iFunny, Tenor, KnowYourMeme, Urban Dictionary, Goodreads, Wolfram Alpha, Instructables, Wikipedia, Wayback Machine, Search, Translate, Google Maps, Meet, Send Files, Paste Text, and Ultimate Guitar. See: <https://libredirect.github.io/>

Several of these are inspired: Snopes -> Suds, iFunny -> UNfunny, Tenor -> Soprnao, Urban Dictionary -> Rural Dictionary.

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