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Obviously a webpage without links is like a fish without a bicycle
The web without links isn't the web anymore, imho. I visited the textplain blog, but links aren't clickable. Do they expect me to copy/paste every link? This is a huge step back and reminds me of newspapers and other printed media.
People can try new concepts and, if enough people join in, it becomes normal.
I'm all for trying new concepts, but I hope this doesn't become normal. Or am I missing something?
It seems plaintext blogs are a weird child of smallweb design.
I think it would be best to have some kind of markup to identify links, and provide other things like italics, bold, subscript, superscript. For example, as in gemini protocol.
You'd think somebody would already have invented some sort of HyperText Markup Language. Oh well.
I guess the point of using only text is to test how far you can go with performance. Using plaintext, or a simple markup language, also forces you to not do the things you can do with HTML.
Image a news website where the focus is the actual news, instead of the weirdly sized max-contrast cookie banner, or the weird space left for ads that do not load because of uBO.
That sounds a lot like RSS.
I’d guess more like gopher
I actually think it’s an interesting idea. We’re prone to click on a lot of links while browsing a page, going down a rabbit hole, spending way too much time there and regretting it later. If we had to copy and paste every link (which is still very quick to do, it’s not as if we had to type the whole thing), would we end up having more control about our internet media consumption? Having to take three seconds to copy and paste the link in my address bar might make me reconsider whether I actually want to visit that page right now, instead of just doing it out of habit. I don’t know if that’s really part of the motivation for “text-only links”, and I don’t think I would make that choice for my website if I had one, but I still find it interesting.
And really, the lack of clickability is not a huge step back, just a small, minor one, considering how quick and reliable it is to copy and paste. It’s in no way comparable to printed media, where you’d have to manually copy the reference and then go look it up in a bookshop or library.
That said, I am concerned about how it may affect accessibility. I’m very ignorant about those things, but I suspect it would be a hassle for people using a screen reader?
Emoji are fine though; emoji are cool.
Emoji are the devil. 😠😠😠😠😠