🆕 blog! “A small collection of text-only websites”
A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative.
Here's this post in plain text - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites.txt
Obviously a webpage…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/
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#blogging #blogs #text #unicode #utf-8
@Edent My blog was text-only for about a year until I redesigned it a few weeks ago. I kept the text-only posts though, adding “.txt" to URLs.
For posts with lots of images, it still looks good.
https://blog.webb.page/WM-079 | https://blog.webb.page/WM-079.txt
Oh I love that !
A new exercice ! Absolutely needed on my website !
I will probably reuse my gemini-capsule output code for that !
Edit: Done https://villepreux.net/about/?format=txt
Seems to be working.
With ?format=text on all URLs
(ie. https://villepreux.net/about/?format=txt)
Would text/gemini content-type be acceptable to be on your list 😉 or is text/plain required ?
Seems to be working.
With ?format=text on all URLs
(ie. https://villepreux.net/about/?format=txt)
Would text/gemini content-type be acceptable to be on your list 😉 or is text/plain required ?
@villapirorum I don't know anything about Gemini. Do you have a link I could try?
@Edent the .txt link gave me the blog post, but as a 404! is this intentional?
@davidgerard seems to work here. What's the full URl you're using?
(NB currently jeylagged, so entirely possible I've broken something.)
