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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

🆕 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

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DamonHD
DamonHD
@DamonHD@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@Edent Does Google Search Console complain that your .txt files are "soft 404s"?

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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

@DamonHD no, I think I excluded then somewhere.

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David Gerard
David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run replied  ·  activity timestamp 23 hours ago

@Edent the .txt link gave me the blog post, but as a 404! is this intentional?

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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 23 hours ago

@davidgerard seems to work here. What's the full URl you're using?

(NB currently jeylagged, so entirely possible I've broken something.)

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