Hi, I'm the creator of textnet.io. I hope this will become a global movement against bloated websites and useless styling.
Looking forward to your feedback and happy to answer all your questions!
Back to the basics - I like it! Kind of ironic (?) that this feels so fresh and different from most of the web these days. It does inspire me to offer content in raw form like plain text, or at least bare HTML.
I wonder, it's probably not realistic to expect non-technical people to install browser extensions that render Markdown automatically. Without it, there are no links possible though..
I love the concept. But functionally - and especially because hyperlinks aren't clickable - you've recreated gopherspace. (Congrats - I love gopherspace).
Driving the world toward a simpler web is a good thing, no matter how you do it. In the meantime, I like to surf with lynx and links text browsers, which converts the entire rest of the WWW into a text-only experience. (And I'm not alone!)
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 47.2 ms ] thread> It can also include emojis ðŸ˜ðŸŽ‰!
Mobile is harder to solve. Haven't found a good solution yet. I guess we'll have to write an extra Textnet browser .
Basically you need to use the browser extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-preview-p... and open http://textnet.io/readme.md instead of http://textnet.io.
But I agree, it's kind of dumb. They could meet all of their 'why's with plain unstyled HTML.
I wonder, it's probably not realistic to expect non-technical people to install browser extensions that render Markdown automatically. Without it, there are no links possible though..
Yay, text ads
Driving the world toward a simpler web is a good thing, no matter how you do it. In the meantime, I like to surf with lynx and links text browsers, which converts the entire rest of the WWW into a text-only experience. (And I'm not alone!)