Plain: A bias-free news site with no ads, no tracking, and no clutter(plainnews.app)
3 pointsby anjrued8 hours ago2 comments
  • ai_critic8 hours ago
    Simple things:

    1. When I click anywhere on a tile, have it expand out (instead of having to click just that little link).

    2. It'd be cool to have a link to the source of any of this stuff.

    3. Consider streamlining the font stuff to bundle/make fewer requests.

    • anjrued8 hours ago
      Good call on the expanding tiles improvement. I'm rolling that out right now. EDIT: Also, regarding the source, the articles are not pulled verbatim from any singular source. Claude is aggregating multiple sources via RSS and writing original copy with those reports.
  • anjrued8 hours ago
    Introducing Plain: a straightforward, fair, balanced news platform designed for you, not advertisers.

    No ads. No clickbait. No outrage. Just clean design and straight news.

    And we're totally user-supported, so we only answer to you, not corporations.

    • newaccountman28 hours ago
      I wouldn't say "no outrage" is somehow "unbiased"

      Also, I clicked and it's a bunch of unsourced snippets of news, why should I trust this lol

      • anjrued8 hours ago
        One of my focuses of this project is to make sure everything is as heavily scrutinized as possible while still being able to automate. I think the prompting and fallback logic I'm using has worked very well so far. There were some kinks at first that had to be worked out, and I'm very actively fixing anything that arises. As far as being unbiased, you can decide on your own by reading. I think it's doing pretty well.