Text-only websites are quite useful, especially today.
Web pages are increasingly filled with ads, videos, and bandwidth-heavy content.
Here is a list of text-only, clutter-free news sites:
General News Aggregators
Brutalist Report: A text-only compilation of news articles — here are selected subsections: Tech – News – Business – Science – Culture – Politics
SkimFeed: This site is similar to Brutalist Report — here are selected subsections: Design – Investing – Long Reads – Mobile – News – Politics – Reddit – Science – Tech – Trend – Youtube – Weather
68k News is a text-only version of Google News.
Wttr.In provides text-only weather reports.
U.S. News
- CNN Text Only — U.S. news from CNN
- New York Times Wire
- Christian Science Monitor Text Only — news from Christian Science Monitor
- NPR News Text Only — news from National Public Radio (US)
- PBS Lite — U.S. news from the Public Broadcasting Service
Canadian News
- CBC Low Bandwidth — low-bandwidth version of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Radio Canada Mini — low-bandwidth version of Radio Canada News in French
UK News
- Minimalist Today’s Guardian
- Neuters – a text-only version of the Reuters home page
- Post Online — a text-only Post Online (UK) — focuses on “global events that impact the US and world economies”
Technology News
- Readspike — More news headlines condensed
- Hckr News — a condensed version of Hacker News
- HackerWeb — a more accessible version of Hacker News
- Lobsters — computing topics — centered around link collection and discussion
- Cyber Report — cyber security news in text format
- Alterslash — the unofficial Slashdot digest
- 1MB Club — a collection of performance-focused web pages weighing less than 1 megabyte
Lightweight Interfaces To Popular Sites
- LibReddit — a lightweight Reddit hosted by Riverside Rocks
- LibReddit — a lightweight Reddit hosted by Strongthany
- LibReddit — a lightweight Reddit hosted by PussTheCat
- Teddit — a lightweight interface to Reddit that retains the Reddit-style design
- Invidious — a lightweight and minimalist interface for Youtube
- Nitter — a lightweight and minimalist interface for Twitter
- Scribe — a lightweight and minimalist interface for Scribe
- SearXNG — a lightweight alternative to Google Search
Wikipedia-Based News
- LegibleNews — news from Wikipedia in an easy-to-read format (Global)
- Wikipedia Current Events — current events from Wikipedia
- Mobile Wikipedia — mobile web version of Wikipedia
- Kidlat — posts the best Creative Commons stories
- News As Facts — concise world news
- Current Events — Wikipedia’s current events, delivered daily
Use Reader Mode In Your Web Browser To Get Text-Only Pages
You can also use “Reader Mode” in many web browsers. This mode strips the page down to text and content-related images. You can read how to enable this mode in various browsers here.
Textise: Browse Sites In Text-Only Mode
You can also use the Textise service, which will create a text-only version of the web page.
a few additions for your list
https://lite.pbs.org/
https://brutalist.report/
https://cyber.report/
https://newsasfacts.com/
https://currentevents.email/
Cool I added them
Hey, nice list! Can I suggest a news site I launched?
https://rc-lite.xyz
It’s a low bandwidth version of https://ici.radio-canada.ca (Canadian news in French)
Hey, I made an update to the domain for this project!
It’s now at https://radiocanadamini.ca
Cool, I’ll add to the web page list.
Rather ironic that when I attempt to access this page via Lynx, I get a 403 error. 🙂
here is a nice little website that i check once in a while: https://kidl.at
news articles and essays
Thanks, I added it.
Thanks for the link. Interesting website.
while it has images and videos
https://teddit.net/
is a much lighter and less java script mirror of reddit you might appreciate.
Added, thanks.
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/trending
Low bandwidth version of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Cool – added.
http://68k.news/ is a text only version of google news.
Thanks — ddded.
https://eink.link/ is a text only web page designed for the simple browsers in some ereaders.
How’s about the Bloomfield Information Project at bloomfieldinfo.org?
https://alterslash.org/ is a text only headlines and top comments of slashdot.org that might fit your criteria for tech news.
Music, ahh music when on the treadmill.
However, wouldn’t it be nice to see a txt only, screen scrolling news site that can also have voice-enabled, as an option, for those wanting this type of service when walking on our treadmills.
I thoroughly appreciate the efforts that you’ve made on our behalf with your work here.
Thank you,
VictorD
good
https://lite.cnn.io/en
The lite version of CNN is text-only.
Thanks, I added it.
lite.poandpo.com is a text version of POST Online Media, very nice move from them.
Thanks, I’ll add that site.
amazing list I need it sir for my website thanks so much