RE: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-sma…
We're now up to FOURTEEN sites which are text only 🙂
If you want a fun weekend project, see if you can make a plaintext version of your blog.
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A small collection of text-only websites
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-sma…
A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add.txtto the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative.Here's this post in plain text - shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-sma…
Obviously a webpage without links is like a fish without a bicycle, but the joy of the web is that there are no gatekeepers. People can try new concepts and, if enough people join in, it becomes normal. I'm not saying the plain-text is the best web experience. But it is an experience. Perfect if you like your browsing fast, simple, and readable. There are no cookie banners, pop-ups, permission prompts, autoplaying videos, or garish colour schemes.
I'm certainly not the first person to do this, so I thought it might be fun to gather a list of websites which you browse in text-only mode. If you know of any more - including your own site - please drop a comment in the box!
- Terence Eden's blog - add
.txtto any URl.- Daring Fireball - add
.textto any URl.- Zach Flowers - replace
.htmlwith.txt.- Fabien Benetou's PIM - add
?action=sourceto any URl.- M0YNG - add
.txtto any URl.- Gwern - add
.mdto any URl or send an HTTP Accept for Markdown.- Dan Q's textplain.blog - the entire blog is plain text!
- Matt Hobbs - there is a feed of plaintext which allows you to read recent posts.
- Bananas Playground - add
index.txtto any post. Also works withindex.md.- Jorvik Systems - change
.htmlto.mdfor Markdown.- Max Glenister's blog - add
.txtto any post's URl.- Philipp Dubach's notes - add
.txtto any post's URl.- Derick Rethans' blog - add
.txtto any post's URl.- Ricardson's blog - add
.txtto any post's URl.If you'd like to add a site, please get in touch. The rules are simple - content which has the MIME type of
text/plain. No HTML, no multimedia, no RTF, no XML, no ANSI colour escape sequences.Emoji are fine though; emoji are cool.
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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.Terence Eden’s Blog
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in reply to Terence Eden • • •My site is now text-first: plain text as the source of truth, HTML only for navigation.
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