Not to take away from this project, but apparently CNN has pushed out a change now (they were having some SSR issues at first). Now it loads roughly 59KB (~7KB if you have uBlock Origin blocking the analytics)
Definitely. Would love to see more sites embrace this. I was glad to see that NPR has a text-only news site too.
Of course the benefit of your project is you get to pull from multiple news sources instead of just one, so that broadens the information available.
Still sad to see that on CNN's lite site the analytics js file itself is ~7 times larger than the page. 52KB of analytics for a 7KB page seems crazy to me. Still better than forcing users to download an entire copy of React for a text page, haha :)
https://twitter.com/samccone/status/906714941360553986
I wanted to provide a lighter way to get latest headlines on poor connection.
It's a quick edit to my old project( removed Boostrap, Google Analytics and added Twitter feed for #irma) https://www.alexkras.com/simple-rss-reader-in-85-lines-of-ph...
If anybody knows a good RSS feed to add, or wants to fork it and do a better job, please be my guest.