Normally those bug me a great deal but because the page loads so fast and the focus is on resource constrained users the `read more' option doesn't bother me at all. I'm constantly frustrated by JavaScript `read more' links though, which take an age to render the rest of the text on mobile devices which is where I do an ever increasing percentage of my reading.
hckrnews.com is a river for news.ycombinator.com, but it doesnt use the term. they just describe it as "a chronologic list of items" vs the most popular/upvoted.
It's often said but the revamped design is excellent and the designers should be commended. I used to have to assist my parents whenever they needed to fill in a government form online and my mum in particular found it stressful, with pages having all sorts of timeouts and conflicting instructions. A lot of services used to be very fragmented and lacked cross browser compatibility. They manage it easily themselves since the UI became much more accessible.
NoScript by default blocks third-party scripts (of which this site has plenty). In this instance it's some JS from shopify that's required for basic functionality.
http://amasci.com/ - Science Hobbyist, the homepage of Bill Beaty. I've been perusing it off and on for 15 years and keep discovering neat things. First found it via "Evil Genius Hoaxes" http://amasci.com/hoax.html
And in similar style from a similar era, Ian's Shoelace Site: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ (the Ian Knot will change your life, though I use the double-Ian Knot to never re-tie laces again).
For those outside the UK and/or are unaware, this is a real business. The owner, Ling Valentine [0], even appeared on Dragon's Den seeking investment of £50,000 [1].
There is so much good machining stuff there. I remember reading all the posts when I discovered frets. I am going to see if there are any new posts right now...looks like all the machining content has moved to http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/tiplist.html
As neither a professional designer or developer, I wanted a site that was very clean and easy to build (and adaptive) but shared critical information. The end result has made me quite happy.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 161 ms ] threadhttps://www.aldaily.com/
http://idlewords.com/talks/
http://mediagazer.com/river
http://memeorandum.com/river
http://aldaily.com was already mentioned
http://scitechdaily.com aldaily sister science site
http://hckrnews.com
https://longform.org
https://longreads.com
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https://redef.com doesnt fit the criteria, but its close, and i wish it had an option to turn off images.
two i dont actually visit very often - http://www.jimmyr.com http://popurls.com
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as for page design itself.
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/
http://http2.info/
http://scripting.com/2014/06/02/whatIsARiverOfNewsAggregator... http://buzzmachine.com/2006/08/22/the-river-of-news/
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2005/05/river_of_news_1.html
hckrnews.com is a river for news.ycombinator.com, but it doesnt use the term. they just describe it as "a chronologic list of items" vs the most popular/upvoted.
I've mostly seen it used in the context of news readers.
- https://braille.wunderground.com/
- http://www.smh.com.au/text/ and any other news source that still bothers to make RSS-like versions
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index-100a.html
https://yeezysupply.com/
shows absolutely no content except for a handful footer links without 3rd party JS.
Just meant to show that minimalist design doesn't have to mean that it's technically clean or minimalist in any way.
Browsing journals "by locale" is the best armchair tourism on the internet.
And in similar style from a similar era, Ian's Shoelace Site: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ (the Ian Knot will change your life, though I use the double-Ian Knot to never re-tie laces again).
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/reviews.htm
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/ and http://http2.info/ are simple yet feel carefully crafted.
Ahhh! It's stuck in my brain!
[0] https://twitter.com/LINGsCARS
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtib4WZW_4M
The Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da one ain't half bad, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2whZLX8nDw
EDIT: is there an established subgenre for "Chinese knockoff surf rock"? Because if there is, I want a hell of a lot more of it.
Straight out of the late 90s hand-written html, but by one of the greatest guitar luthiers alive, Frank Ford.
Want to see exactly how one would restore a pre-war Martin Guitar? You can see it. Truly amazing.
http://bryanmgreen.com/
As neither a professional designer or developer, I wanted a site that was very clean and easy to build (and adaptive) but shared critical information. The end result has made me quite happy.
(And by the way, there's a typo in your font-family.)