CNN Lite
Text-only CNN, for mobile limited coverage
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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!
Ramy Yared
@rrhoover old school WAP look
Daniel B
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.
Adam Rasheed
@treggify it's for people with super slow data connections because of the storm.
Tregg
@arasheedphoto I mean, that's also a great use case, yeah!
Daniel B
@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?
Tregg
@melkonyanrob I believe it is, mostly because of the URL.
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.
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