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:
- CNN Text Only — U.S. news from CNN
- 68k News is a text-only version of Google News
- Neuters – a text-only version of the Reuters home page
- NPR News Text Only — news from National Public Radio (US)
- CBC Low Bandwidth — low bandwidth version of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Teddit — a lightweight text-only Reddit
- Christian Science Monitor Text Only — news from Christian Science Monitor
- PBS Lite — U.S. news from the Public Broadcasting Service
- Cyber Report — cyber security news in text format
- Post Online — a text-only Post Online (UK) — focuses on “global events that impact the US and world economies”
- LegibleNews — news from Wikipedia in an easy-to-read format (Global)
- Popurls – another news aggregator
- 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
These are stripped-down sites with minimal images:
Text-Only Technology News
Here are some text-only news sites that focus on technology:
- Brutalist Report — technology news sources on one page
- Lobsters — computing topics — centered around link collection and discussion
- Skimfeed — a long list of technology headlines
- Readspike — another long list of technology headlines
- HackerNews — technology news social site
- HackerWeb — a more accessible version of Hacker News
- Alterslash — the unofficial Slashdot digest
Use Browser’s Reader Mode or Textize 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 here.
You can also make use of 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)
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