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I love the concept. But functionally - and especially because hyperlinks aren't clickable - you've recreated gopherspace. (Congrats - I love gopherspace).

Driving the world toward a simpler web is a good thing, no matter how you do it. In the meantime, I like to surf with lynx and links text browsers, which converts the entire rest of the WWW into a text-only experience. (And I'm not alone!)

Back to the basics - I like it! Kind of ironic (?) that this feels so fresh and different from most of the web these days. It does inspire me to offer content in raw form like plain text, or at least bare HTML.

I wonder, it's probably not realistic to expect non-technical people to install browser extensions that render Markdown automatically. Without it, there are no links possible though..

I'm all against useless styling, but a web without clickable hyperlinks is not a web at all.
To be fair, it's the "Internet of Text", not the "Web of Text".

But I agree, it's kind of dumb. They could meet all of their 'why's with plain unstyled HTML.

There are several browser extensions available which activate the links. E.g. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-link/ikfmghnm...
Hi, I'm the creator of textnet.io. I hope this will become a global movement against bloated websites and useless styling. Looking forward to your feedback and happy to answer all your questions!
Typo: file extension of pandoc epub example is pdf not epub.
Thanks, fixed it!
The emojis didn't display for me, on iOS. Content-encoding issue?

> It can also include emojis 😁🎉!

Forgot to set encoding in Content-Type. Fixed it now! =)
How about clickable links? Like that the site is very hard to use mobile.
There are several browser extensions available which activate the links. E.g. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-link/ikfmghnm...

Mobile is harder to solve. Haven't found a good solution yet. I guess we'll have to write an extra Textnet browser .

Also, turns out that https://insomnia.rest is a pretty good client for the Textnet and it automatically enables links!
> <https://feram.io>. A service which automatically finds & fixes bugs in code.

Yay, text ads

Haha, at least they are not flashing around and popping up into the viewport. Someone's gotta keep the lights on, right? ;-)
What about Mathjax/Latex?
Works! Just updated the FAQ on how to enable LaTeX rendering.

Basically you need to use the browser extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-preview-p... and open http://textnet.io/readme.md instead of http://textnet.io.

Good idea.