I’ve been a long-time user of CNN Lite (lite.cnn.com) since first learning of it here. It seems to have been deprecated, showing just a single message to update your app. Sad times.
Strange. I was reading it literally a couple hours ago.<p>It has gone down for extended periods in the past, most likely when the unpaid intern running it had exams or something.
I wonder if it got a bunch of traffic yesterday from being mentioned in a HN post, and they decided it wasn't worth it.<p>Mentioned in here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21798623" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21798623</a>
For anyone wanting text only news, here's a gopher service: <a href="https://txtn.ws" rel="nofollow">https://txtn.ws</a>. With a http proxy it's almost as usable as via gopher.
I'm a fan of <a href="http://legiblenews.com" rel="nofollow">http://legiblenews.com</a><p>I think it uses Wikipedia as its source.
Well that's unfortunate. I've used these lite interfaces when I was on bandwidth-restricted networks, including satellite internet connections. I hope they bring it back. The main CNN website is an awful pile of junk and I avoid it whenever possible.
Comes and goes. Will have content. Then blank. No add revenue. A work of love. Some awfull spelling and copy grammer in some articles though. But fortunately no blaring intrusive video.
I prefer to some clean news aggregators, such as<p><a href="https://alltop.com/" rel="nofollow">https://alltop.com/</a><p><a href="https://www.zaqs.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.zaqs.org/</a>
There's also <a href="https://mobile.reuters.com" rel="nofollow">https://mobile.reuters.com</a>
not as barebones, but also clean
Sad times for CNN began 3 yrs ago when they added strong bias to otherwise objective and very professional coverage of natiowide and worldwide events.<p>I grew up with CNN being my goto window to the world. Now it feels to become more like angry, old neighbor