Reading long-form content on the internet is a shitty experience.
This is a web-proxy that tries to make it better.
This is a rewriting proxy. In other words, it proxies arbitrary web content, while allowing the rewriting of the remote content as driven by a set of rule-files. The goal is to effectively allow the complete customization of any existing web-sites as driven by predefined rules.
Functionally, it's used for extracting just the actual content body of a site and reproducing it in a clean layout. It also modifies all links on the page to point to internal addresses, so following a link points to the proxied version of the file, rather then the original.