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by LinuxBender·1y ago·view on hn ↗
Somewhat related I think: I've been curious what others think. Is it taboo or poor taste in 2025 to have a site that is 100% text/plain with auto-indexing performed by the webserver? Are their any text/plain beautifiers that will format pages for people that like to read books? Such as adding page numbers, footers, structuring paragraphs correctly, making a table of contents with page numbers, converting hyperlinks. Is relying on the back button too much to ask?

I've been thinking about converting all my offliine-blog contents to purely text. I hard-block search engines so I would only care what humans and genetically modified primates think.

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These aren't quite what you're looking for (an SSG theme that does fixed content layouts with pagination, etc with minimal styles by sounds of it), but inspired by similar ideas:

- https://github.com/BafS/Gutenberg

- https://github.com/weitblick/epub

- https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/