Txt.fyi

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a simple version of pastebin. I like it! :slight_smile:

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So let me get this straight. You write using a sort of truncated markdown. You get a text only age with links and formattin that is a URL and if you forget the url oops.

Right?

That sounds awesome.

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https://txt.fyi/+/4a0f7b3f/

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Nasty

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#:crying-cat-face:

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I can’t decide if it would be best to have a limit people feel and will be guided by (say, 64kb) or to stick with “as much as the server can reasonably handle.”

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So, how long before someone implements a virtual Universal Turing Machine in this system?

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Well so long as the input is plain text (with markdown) why not stick to a 64k limit? That… is a lot of text per page/file.

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Pastebin but worsebetter!

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So, Rob. Don’t leave us hanging. Give us technical details about your implementation. Where’s the git repository?

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Word has it, it’s stored on a thumb drive in a certain safe…

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https://txt.fyi/+/fa4241b3/

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the code is somewhere between https://txt.fyi/+/00000000/ and https://txt.fyi/+/ffffffff/

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I’ll be making it open-source soon! I want to take it as far as I can personally just as a learning experience. Just a few days.

But really it’s a basic form and a script that does a sanity check on the input then dumps it to disk. The appeal is surely the idea of it and its smallness – the code embodying it is so trivial I’m sure anyone competent could replicate it in an hour, let alone a weekend.

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does not work. all my comments were accepted.

eta: it’s even worse than I thought at first. your sanity checker accepts Trump tweets. sorry, not production ready.

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I was thinking something like that would be a good idea – I rather liked the idea of there being an image of the post hidden away in the meta tags that Twitter will pick up and automatically embed. People seem to like posting pictures of text to twitter.

It’s obscene, though.

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HOW POSSIBLE

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@beschizza - I understand you are going for minimal, but when I’m at the beginning or middle of a scree of text, it is not obvious how to get to the main page to make mine own without editing the URL.

Then again, that’s what minimal is isn’t it.

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You are using source control though, right?

Good lord, an offsite repository is literally the first thing I do outside of thinking about a project in my head,

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https://txt.fyi/+/d4564d90/

So, maybe just on the published page show a prompt “Copy and save the URL”.

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