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It looks fine in lynx, as long as you don't have the "show links to images" feature on for local image viewing. Then it looks about as silly as NS with image loading off (which offers an unfortunately large "busted image" icon).
Barring switching over to lynx to avoid the darn things entirely, you could use one of the convert-your-view sites:
http://www.miranova.com/~steve/Lynx-View.html
I think a text-only version would be neat, but I'm uncertain how far it would "sell" (considering it'd be free). Maybe it could be called HyperNews-lite. or HyperNews-T. (we could make Mr. T. jokes here)
I'd prefer a less-frills option since nearly all the buttons are representing text. Certainly it sounds possible to zap all the text-buttons in source if you were installing your own. But I kinda like the prefix icons.
I say submit an enhance request to your graphic browser company to let you not have a broken-image gizmo when image loading is off. Just the text, if present, or [image] if not, just like lynx does. Not a solution for HyperNews but a hope for the future of that browser.
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Speeding up HyperNews
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