Tell HN: Outline.com is offline, domain for sale
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A 2020 LifeHacker post describes its basic use and mechanic: https://lifehacker.com/use-this-site-to-read-and-annotate-ar...
It's apparently been down for a month or so. The domain is now being listed for sale.
Internet Archive's final active capture was on 27 February 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20220227091525/https://outline.c...
Present result when attemtping domain: https://archive.ph/LYN9z
It's apparently been down for a month or so. The domain is now being listed for sale.
Internet Archive's final active capture was on 27 February 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20220227091525/https://outline.c...
Present result when attemtping domain: https://archive.ph/LYN9z
Sad but unsurprising. I'm amazed that archive.is is still around, to the extent that I wonder who really funds it...
This website is very similar: https://www.darkread.io/
I noticed the first day this was down because I was using their API in a demo. Bad luck
Alternatives:
https://12ft.io/
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome (also for firefox)
https://12ft.io/
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome (also for firefox)
Although still up, 12ft has been hit with legal notices and no longer works with bigger outlets like NYT
There's another service that offers a similar simplified presentation option, though I can't remember it presently.
The creator was mentioning it on HN for a while.
The creator was mentioning it on HN for a while.
Just use a browser extension version (works on Firefox despite the name only mentioning Chrome): https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
I've never understood why these sites exist when the above extension exists, as they're slower than the extension.
I've never understood why these sites exist when the above extension exists, as they're slower than the extension.
Not everyone is sitting at a desktop and using FF or a Chromium variant.
You can use Kiwi browser with this plugin on Android. If you are on iOS, sorry!
That’s a niche browser without an update since 2020. Doesn’t bolster OP’s case:
> I've never understood why these sites exist when the above extension exists, as they're slower than the extension.
One could say why use Kiwi browser and a plug-in when websites exist.
> I've never understood why these sites exist when the above extension exists, as they're slower than the extension.
One could say why use Kiwi browser and a plug-in when websites exist.
I used it to point people to a reader-view of an article here on HN, or where an article was paywalled. Sadly it needed javascript to work, and sometimes it wouldn't allow certain articles to be 'outlined', randomly and without reason.
This is the clean version without analytics: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
The domain now redirects to a seller site: https://outline.com