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Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Do you have a Text-Only version of your blog?

Here's mine:

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/link-relalternate-typetext-plain.txt

I also found:

https://flower.codes/2025/10/23/onion-mirror.txt

Anyone else doing plain text blogging?

Please boost to other bloggers 馃檪

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Andrew Woods
@awoodsnet@phpc.social replied  路  activity timestamp 24 hours ago

@Edent I never even considered someone would publish a plain text version. It鈥檚 an interesting idea. I think a better alternative format is epub. That way users of Kobo and other e-readers could consume your blog more easily

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aimee
@aimee@mastodon.nz replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Edent plain text blogging rocks 馃槉 Have you come across Bear? :)

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Utopiah (Fabien Benetou)
@utopiah@mastodon.pirateparty.be replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Edent Well... I don't know if it counts as I don't really blog but my wiki pages can be read in print mode https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SwappingPartsOfTheRestrictionStack?action=print or un-rendered https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SwappingPartsOfTheRestrictionStack?action=source and the whole wiki has an RSS feed https://fabien.benetou.fr/Site/AllRecentChanges?action=rss ... kinda? :P

https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SwappingPartsOfTheRestrictionStack?action=source

Fabien Benetou's PIM | Content / SwappingPartsOfTheRestrictionStack

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Fraser Smith 馃彺鬆仹鬆仮鬆伋鬆仯鬆伌鬆伩
@frassmith@dotnull.net replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Edent How about a gopher version?

Joking...

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Ian Wagner
@ianthetechie@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Edent not explicitly (unless you count RSS? Sorta text? Haha). But you can always find my blog鈥檚 plain markdown files on GitHub 馃槄

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Christopher M0YNG
@M0YNG@mastodon.radio replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Edent my site is available over gopher and all the gopher files are available over http too - so accidentally yes!

gopher://m0yng.uk:70/0/2025/03/Tracking-the-benefits-of-Solar-and-Battery.txt

https://m0yng.uk/2025/03/Tracking-the-benefits-of-Solar-and-Battery.txt

https://m0yng.uk/2025/03/Tracking-the-benefits-of-Solar-and-Battery.txt
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draxil
@draxil@social.linux.pizza replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Edent they're all text blogs once your rss reader is in #emacs :)

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Khleedril
@khleedril@cyberplace.social replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Edent I'm a fan of your blog, but that's horrible.

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Vale
@vale@fedi.vale.rocks replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Edent I know of quite a few blogs that provide their content in plaintext unrendered markdown specifically for LLMs.

I鈥檝e been meaning to provide my posts in plain markdown for a few reasons as well.

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jleedev@mastodon.sdf.org
@jleedev@mastodon.sdf.org replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Edent https://daringfireball.net/2004/03/introducing_markdown.text

https://daringfireball.net/2004/03/introducing_markdown.text
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Ton Zijlstra
@ton@m.tzyl.eu replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Edent ah, verrry interesting! I think I will give that a try too. Does it mean lower load times when choosing .txt?

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Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@ton There's less to transfer - so it should be quicker. But I do try to optimise my blog for generally quick load times.

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Krazov
@Krazov@mstdn.social replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Edent Interesting idea. I use Zola and maybe there is a plugin/option to do that.

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