I like this, but be ready for 'questionable content' like dox and password lists. Dealing with that crap was why I stopped running pastebin.com :)
Hi! Creator here. It's getting a good kicking right now so I took down the "new post" page. Everyone's fyis are still live and well.<p>I wanted to make a publishing widget so minimal it would operate without fuss on a $5 digitalocean plan, and I think I almost succeeded!
Nice. Similar to <a href="https://telegra.ph" rel="nofollow">https://telegra.ph</a>, <a href="https://write.as" rel="nofollow">https://write.as</a>, and <a href="https://bold.io" rel="nofollow">https://bold.io</a>.
Aren't people who visit Hacker News already familiar with a ton of ways to publish anything they want instead of soon-to-cease-to-exist service that only serves raw text?<p>I say this not to be mean -- I understand where you're coming from, I myself have written a "pure plain text" service in the past and thought it would be revolutionary due to its simplicity.
The whole "main" page being under 2kB is an adventurous thing indeed. Overall, interesting implementation and incredibly clean layout (CSS is 541b.)<p>What languages are the site written in?
Looks great, but it's sort of unfortunate that the author doesn't seem to have seen the work on microformats[1] that the IndieWeb community has been working on.<p>Being able to pull microformats out of the posts to reconstruct feeds, automatically embed txt.fyi post summaries, syndicate to facebook/twitter/etc (with comments backfed in to it) is super nice for low-bandwidth sites like these, you can add a lot of useful value for little more a few extra HTML classes. The core of a lot of this, the "webmention" standard is a W3C recommendation, even.[2]<p>[1]: <a href="http://indieweb.org/" rel="nofollow">http://indieweb.org/</a> <a href="http://microformats.org/" rel="nofollow">http://microformats.org/</a>
[2]: <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/" rel="nofollow">https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/</a>
I like the idea. I've used services like this before. I do wonder if monospaced font is really the best route. It makes anything longer than a couple hundreds words a pain to read.
> no database<p>Incorrect. This uses storage on a server to store post data. When I first read that I thought this would be a distributed p2p platform of some sort.<p>The p2p web platform being worked on at OFTN makes it very easy to create a truly static version of this website (100% client-side p2p logic & data distribution) without a server database.<p>You will be liable for illegal content uploaded to your server (when notified of its existence), so you will be required to remove content from your server when you receive court orders/DMCA takedown requests/etc. With a proper p2p tracker-based system, you can simply forward legal proceedings to the ISP of infringing users, and avoid the legal time sink involved with this kind of site.
> "Long live the independent web!"<p>I see how you can call this independent (eg. not a big hosting company), but for me the independent web is people hosting their content and keeping control on it. The ideal case is everyone hosting on their own machine (the old WWW?)
I would consider <a href="http://ix.io/" rel="nofollow">http://ix.io/</a> to be even more "dumb" than this. And it has a command-line client too.
small page size, secure static html file, loads fast and viewable on mobile device.<p>What sorcery is this??! Page size is not even 1mb and there's no React front-end component :)
It's a pastebin, with somewhat-nice formatting.<p>I think half the "pastebin problem" has been solved by just avoiding setting up your own backing store (and frequently your own input step), and instead being a presentation-proxy for a more "raw" content-editing service, like Github Gists. For example: <a href="http://gist.io" rel="nofollow">http://gist.io</a><p>There are a few services like that; what I'm still yearning for, though, is one that either<p>1. has a real design team focused on making its pages "read" well, like Medium does; or<p>2. <i>does</i> have accounts, to let you set up a custom theme for your pages. (Though you can be creative about this, for example by letting the Gist include a JSON/YAML/TOML/whatever properties file that specifies the theme, and by making the themes Github repos that the service just pulls and caches on first use rather than needing to own itself.)<p>A service that offered either of these would finally fulfill the promise of letting me separate "writing" from "blogging", such that I wouldn't really need a "blog", just a microblog containing links to my own posts.
It can host more than just plaintext
<a href="https://txt.fyi/+/36d433e6/" rel="nofollow">https://txt.fyi/+/36d433e6/</a>
The monospaced font is a downer, but the clean colorful pixel logo makes me happy.<p>Overall this strikes me as a project borne of a sweet domain name, but I still dig it.
So I had a go of this. I pasted in Yeats' Second Coming [0] (feels somewhat salient these days) to see how it looked [1]. For the most part it looks okay, but visually it adds too much space between lines and the gap between the two verses has been eliminated.<p>I guess what's happening here is the usual HTML thing of compressing all whitespaces. I would just be concerned that if a plain-text medium is being used then whitespace becomes more important for formatting and it should perhaps be preserved.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/second-coming" rel="nofollow">https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/second-coming</a><p>[1] <a href="https://txt.fyi/+/f765eda5/" rel="nofollow">https://txt.fyi/+/f765eda5/</a>
Not bad, a better font and a fix in markdown for fenced code and good to go:<p><a href="https://txt.fyi/+/39c4f224/" rel="nofollow">https://txt.fyi/+/39c4f224/</a><p>Also, a way to make ninja edits with a cookie for 24 hrs.
Legible is subjective. I personally find the font and spacing quite difficult to read actually. Conceptually reminds me of an old writing platform I used to use called QuietWrite. Loved it while it lasted.
Very simple, to the point. Great tool.<p>These types are becoming more popular for people who don't really care to blog and just want to get something up quickly. I think pen.io were the ones who pioneered the idea of it.<p>So many others followed and I wrote something similar: <a href="https://mypost.io/" rel="nofollow">https://mypost.io/</a><p>It allows for much more user control including easy HTML and CSS usage with the ability to set your own URL. It hasn't receive as much thrill as your product has on Hacker News, but it is being used worldwide.
> and know the form of your voice is out there forever.<p>Lots of these types of sites usually have some limit. That is, if the page hasn't been visited in 6 months - out it goes. Curious what the time limits are.<p>Also, unable to test (site under heavy load) but is there an edit link that's made available after making a post? From the comments, that doesn't appear to be the case. So if I wanted to use it as a knowledge base for something, I wouldn't be able to keep updating it. I think this is the missing (basic) feature.
Doesn't look like you're using it, but if so... This is leaking in the source:<p>define('NONCE_SECRET', 'XXXXXXXXXXXX');<p>Edit: Now that it's back live, you might want to change the secret.
It seems to me like this is just a lightweight pastebin clone with some extra privacy and markdown support.<p>I don't see the value. Feel free to enlighten me -- anyone.
Tried some ASCII art, but it appears multiple adjacent spaces get collapsed into a single space, meaning this isn't the platform I was hoping for for ASCII needs.<p>Plus, the line spacing eliminated the possibility for sane multiple-line ASCII.<p>Definitely hipster not true oldskool. I will live and dream...
Since the site is already experiencing the HN hug of death, it makes me wonder how doable it would be to make something like this but backed by a P2P store, possibly verified by blockchain
Some markdown features aren't working, like code blocks and newlines (by ending a line in double-spaces). Also, unknown routes don't 404 nicely; they just hit the Apache default.
Seems like a cool idea, and the creator is pretty responsive on Twitter. I offered to assist with the infrastructure as a way of supporting the project.
if anyone is interested in a on-premise minimalistic pastebin-like service, I ended up writing <a href="https://github.com/andreineculau/tastebin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/andreineculau/tastebin</a>