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CNN Lite - Text-only CNN, for mobile limited coverage

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CNN Lite delivers the latest news from CNN quickly, in a text-only format.

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Ryan Hoover
This might be more useful than cnn.com. ✔ Faster to load ✔ No ads ✔ Easy to scan
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Hunter
@rrhoover By the way npr has a similar Lite version: http://thin.npr.org/. What I really hate about the news sites is the auto-playing videos - perhaps a news aggregator can be built that would crawl, extract and display news snippet in text-only format!
Daniel Butler
Seriously ? I'm all for speedy but not to take the visual experience back to web 99. Throw some basic font love on this and make it enjoyable.
Tregg
@dnlbtlr I think this is designed for edge cases where even loading a font may cause problems. Think using a pay as you go phone with a crappy web browser in the middle of nowhere.
Daniel Butler
@treggify sure but blue underlined links ?!
Josh Holloway
@treggify @dnlbtlr Does that really matter? It's completely and totally functional.
Nick Smith
I wish every publisher would do this
Robert Melkonyan
Is this an official CNN product?
Brandon Carson

Any chance we can get some additional color options that are easier on the eyes?

Pros:

Great lo-fi solution

Cons:

Needs a dark mode

John Murch
It's like WAP pages back in the day - super lightweight and limited styling.
Parag Deshpande

This is something similar to Twitter Lite that will save data consumption on your mobile.

Pros:

It is lite and low bandwidth. Easier to read content on the go

Cons:

No images/media

Marius
I wish more websites would be like this. So many sites bloated and distracting.
LolCoolKat
CNN can be such a pain to load; most of the time, on slower connections. Got this bookmarked, thanks!
Louis Lapat
Wow I might actually read CNN now. I get sensory overload from their original site/tv station.
joshua bradley
This beats the NY Times redesign announcement #actuallyreadable
Hrant Arzumanyan
I always wondered if there's anything as simple as this. Glad to see it here.
Karim Maassen
And this, my friends, is why I'm building my start-up (a citizen journalism platform) without images. I honestly believe that users want to see as much content as possible without all the poo hah. Nice find!
RHYS HOWELL
The fact there are no images is actually refreshing. CSS is dead!
vikkio88

even though is quite lite, you can still make it mobile friendly, adding some small css tweaks

Pros:

Great Idea

Cons:

design