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That's a very unhelpful about page. What is "fast web pages for everybody"? Is it a proxy server that compresses websites like Opera Mini did?

• zczc 3y ago
  It's markdown-based static webpage hosting: http://txti.es/how http://txti.es/how
• nameequalsmain 3y ago
  Here's what it looked like before the announcement: http://web.archive.org/web/20230302172255/http://txti.es/ http://web.archive.org/web/20230302172255/http://txti.es/ Input markdown, get a web page.
  • brabel 3y ago
    This is the right way to go for simple websites, and I do that, but why would I pay for something to do it for me when it's so extremely simple to use one of 100s[1] of open-source static site generators and host them on GitHub Pages, Netlify and many others completely free? Makes sense that this was a hard sell. [1] https://jamstack.org/generators/ https://jamstack.org/generators/
    • rakoo 3y ago
      "Github pages, Netlify and many others completely free" still require you to create yet another account. Always a pain when all you want is get a few words out. There might have been a useful goal in that it prevented spam, but today it's not even preventing that anymore.
    • cxr 3y ago
      txti.es was free, and there's nothing in these comments, or the shutdown message, or the page from the Wayback Machine that mentions pricing. Why did you bring up paying for "something to do it for me" and hard sells?
      • brabel 3y ago
        Because it was a business, or wasn't it?
        • cxr 3y ago
          We just covered this...
    • xigoi 3y ago
      txti.es was much easier to use for non-technical people. (And who said anything about paying?)
• r721 3y ago
  You can look at pages which were previously submitted to HN for some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=txti.es https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=txti.es