Txt.fyi

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I was thinking of control codes you can include.

!imaprofessor = your post has no css whatsoever

!imahacker = your post is green on black ASCII

!bigger = 150% font size

etc

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Needs an “I am not a robot” box so that @OtherMichael can’t bot it :slight_smile:

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Encryption makes everything hard; but the rest of your proposal sounds like a more or less elementary application of RFC 3548, section 4 “Base 64 Encoding with URL and Filename Safe Alphabet”.

(edit: apropos of that, the urls generated by txt.fyi are definitely too short to be the products of a (reversible) operation on the text they correspond to; so how are the mappings between URLs and payloads stored in the absence of a database? Do you just mean ‘no database’ as in ‘utterly unfeatured key-value store’, or am I failing to understand an elegant trick here?)

(edit the second: The real fun part about storing the content in the URL is that, once you have a mechanism for taking a URL and rendering the stored content; all syntactically correct URLs automatically have corresponding content regardless of whether or not anyone has actually entered it or not. Saves on storage space; and gives you that fun Library of Babble effect. The vast majority of syntactically correct URLs will be of absolutely no interest whatsoever; but they’ll be there.)

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…but has weird animated gifs like a 90s Angelfire page.

And frames.

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It’d be really bad taste to crawl optimistically from https://txt.fyi/+/00000000/ to https://txt.fyi/+/ffffffff/, right?

(Damn you non-fixed-width fonts!)

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I was about to ask:
https://txt.fyi/+/c94b5f13/

But, looks like the answer is ‘Yep. Pretty much right now.’

[ETA: No onebox support? :stuck_out_tongue:]
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Sorry, @crenquis for missing [quote=“crenquis, post:8, topic:95391”]
for his numbers station
[/quote]

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It just outputs a html file on the server, the URLs are intended to be random.

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My Google Keep app oneboxes the URLs

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Support for rot13?
Edit
Perhaps a !1337 tag will automatically rot13 a post

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Hmm, odd. The Android Keep app did briefly on the creation widget, then lost it in the app itself.

As Discourse isn’t boxing it either, I wonder if it’s meant to pass the info, but there’s a glitch?

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Isn’t this what Pastebin does, only less?

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Right! “pretty pastebin” was the original idea. Pastebin without the complexities, but plus some nice text-formatting options that writers might like. Pastebin is great, not knocking pastebin.

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oooh!

!encrypt[key]

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Mine kept it

Screenshot_20170219-114720.png1080×1920 33.3 KB

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i resemble that remark! Though, you resemble it slightly more, Hagar. :wink:

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https://txt.fyi/+/a72c7347/

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Hey! None of that SAMIZDAT stuff… The authorities will shut it down before it has a chance.

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And when I go back to it, now mine has, too.

Odd.

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