Show HN: I made my website plain text only
aswinmohan.meTerribly inconvenient for actual usage. To use links on your site, I need to highlight expressions in brackets by mouse (and I need to click-and-drag, and I need to be exact at it), then I need to copy this value, parse relative links, and paste it in appropriately.
Unusable from a keyboard (on a standard configuration of Firefox at least; I suppose there’s an option to allow for more precise highlighting from a keyboard). Probably unusable for visually impaired users, definitely not pleasant to listen to.
If you want minimalism, fine, but you should use basic HTML (like the HTML you’d get from any Markdown renderrer and your .txt files…). With clickable links, Tab-and-hit-Enter links, visually-impaired-friendly links, and so on.
If you use Vimium (I use Vimium-C) extension, you can select any text on the page from keyboard.
Basically, you search for first few letters, then quit search and move end of your selection to the end of word (might need to do it few times).
But yeah, site isn't really convenient to use. I love minimalism though so if it was just a blog in one txt file without links (there is a blog like that, saw it sometime ago here on Show HN), it would be fine.
Out of curiosity I converted my blog and blog posts to a collection of text files. I thought first about making a simple HTML file, but then thought if I have HTML there is nothing stopping me from adding CSS and JS to it. I wanted a bare minimum way for my writing to exist on the web and work well on the command line.
Since we can't add links to text files, they follow the markdown format of links [link](url) where you have to manually copy paste the URL in the URL bar. The text is hard wrapped at 80 chars, and no indentation is used since it messes up the look on mobile. I love it, what do you people think ? Yeah or neh ?
Interesting idea, but yeah since you cannot click on the links nobody will want to use it.