@Edent I never even considered someone would publish a plain text version. It’s 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

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

@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

@Edent How about a gopher version?

Joking...

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

@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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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