Txti is shutting down

The dark forest claims another victim.<p>&gt; Yancey&#x27;s Dark Forest theory of the web. The “dark forest” is a place that seems eerily quiet and devoid of life. All the living creatures within it are hiding. Because “night is when the predators come out. To survive, the animals stay silent.”<p>&gt; The predators here are the advertisers, tracking bots, clickbait creators, attention-hungry influencers, reply guys, and trolls. It&#x27;s unsafe to reveal yourself to them in any authentic way. So we retreat into private spaces. We hide in the cozy web.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maggieappleton.com&#x2F;cozy-web" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maggieappleton.com&#x2F;cozy-web</a>

Depending on your perspective, hosting is&#x2F;can be expensive in cost or time (server maintenance) or both<p>I just use GitHub README.md to host my journal. I trust GitHub shall be around in 10 years.<p>If I start an open source product or service, the homepage shall contain the reference manual and examples and all the documentation. It shall be one asset that can be copied and archived and replicated across servers and mirrored. It won&#x27;t be a paragraph of text in hundreds of web pages but a single long document.

Does anyone know how I can contact the creators of Txti? I&#x27;ve looked around and can&#x27;t seem to find any contact information.<p>As a long-time user I value what they&#x27;ve done and would like to help. Ideally, if it&#x27;s just a problem of it being too much work for them to secure against bad actors, I&#x27;d just take over the website and organize that work myself. No promises, though, I&#x27;d need to understand the problem better before committing to solving it. :)<p>I suspect the authors and I have a lot of values in common.<p>Alternatively, the authors can contact me at [removed].<p>EDIT: Found an email!

ArchiveTeam subreddit has a small discussion about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Archiveteam&#x2F;comments&#x2F;13mjl8c&#x2F;_&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Archiveteam&#x2F;comments&#x2F;13mjl8c&#x2F;_&#x2F;</a>

Txti.es if you are reading this, can you provide a list of the websites that you had? We can still look at them via archive sites like wayback machine. Thanks for everything. This was a beautiful concept and hopefully someone can take the mantle.

What was txti? A static minimal-style site generator?

I hope the main static page (motherfuckingwebsite.com) will live on, it&#x27;s a great fulcrum on which to raise your particular designs.

Giving a valuable service away for free on the internet is like putting out a bowl of candy on halloween night with a sign that says &quot;Be nice, please take one,&quot; and then walking away. There are a lot of not-nice people out there any nobody should be surprised when all the candy is gone in five minutes.

OK, you&#x27;re not accepting new content because you don&#x27;t want to host phishing, but why stop serving the existing pages? Does it really cost that much to run?

What does &quot;bad actors&quot; mean?<p>What was it this abused for? Malware C2 instructions?

<i>cough</i> open source? <i>cough</i> self host? <i>cough</i>

I would like to help rebuild txti.es if you are interested. I&#x27;m developing an identity system - with reputation - to keep bad people out. No cost, easy to use. Makes it increasingly hard to get a burner identity. Not finished but probably be usable. Micro-billing - so you can charge 0.10 {cents,euros,marks,francs or dracmas} per month&#x2F;week&#x2F;etc, is also in the work. email to arthurgarbanzo at gmail.com if interested. I will do the work as I am trying prove the concept.

I wonder how one would implement a reputation-based accounts system, something like lobste.rs has. To get an account, you need to be invited by someone who already has one, and if you get banned, all your children and N levels of parents get banned too.

I love the design of this shutdown notice. No logo, it just starts with the text, it even doesn&#x27;t have excessive padding. Makes me question why the first thing Hacker News (like all websites) has been telling me for years is that it&#x27;s Hacker News, with a logo and with text. I know what website I&#x27;m on.

rentry.org might be a suitable replacement for some.

any idea what form did the bad actor take?