You might argue that a plain text blog is pretty low on features. But that, in
itself, might actually be considered a feature! There's a beautiful simplicity
and minimalism to a plain text blog. I've written about the benefits - to e.g.
performance, security, and accessibility - that a plain text blog provides, at
https://textplain.blog/benefits

Sure, there are limitations too, but there may be workarounds. Have a point to
illustrate? How about ASCII art! It's not great for screenreaders, but so long
as you give a good description (the equivalent of alt-text, which you're using
on HTML pages already, right... right!?) it should be... tolerable? Yeah?

For example, the next 11 lines reveal a picture of a phoenix soaring up on its
firey wings:

                            .\\            //.
                           . \ \          / /.
                           .\  ,\     /` /,.-
                            -.   \  /'/ /  .
                            ` -   `-'  \  -
                              '.       /.\`
                                 -    .-
                                 :`//.'
                                 .`.'
                                 .'

I specified the number of lines to give somebody a screen reader at least SOME
change of skipping ahead rather than reading out all of the underscores, dots,
backticks, and dashes that make up the picture. I'm unsure' how effective that
strategy is in real life. Anybody?

Or perhaps you want to lay your content out in some way. Like perhaps a table!
Here's a table showing how text/plain Web pages are just as good as HTML-based
pages in every conceivable way, and better in some:

        .---------------------------------------.------.-----------.
        |                Feature                | HTML |   Text    |
        :---------------------------------------+------+-----------:
        | Works on the web                      | Yes  | Yes       |
        :---------------------------------------+------+-----------:
        | Can have images and tables            | Yes  | Kinda...? |
        :---------------------------------------+------+-----------:
        | Avoids cross-domain JS-based tracking | No!  | Yes       |
        '---------------------------------------'------'-----------'

This post should to be taken as being at least a little sarcastic. But some of
its points are valid: sometimes you DON'T need HTML. Sometimes using ASCII and
nothing else... is sufficient.

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