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Re: Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web

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Post by MattDemers »

shp0ngle wrote: post #79

One cautionary tale for you. Justpaste.it is a page that offers exactly what you do - free, anonymous sharing of formatted pages, with images and all. Accessible at Tor, very lightweight. Because it was so easy and anonymous, it started being used mostly by Islamic State to share their propaganda; so much that they needed to remove the "most popular" feature (as it was always either beheadings or other propaganda). h…

Rentry and Txti.es have similar issues. Love those sites for giving me markdown-friendly alternatives to Pastebin for writing FAQs and guides and stuff, but man I cannot imagine what their spam/moderation is like.

Re: Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web

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Post by EMM_386 »

ryandetzel wrote: post #109
EMM_386 wrote: post #61

A run a handful of sites I just toss up on Github Pages that are only HTML and CSS. The dynamic stuff is .Net in the background. I feel like I've time-travellled back 20 years sometimes, but this is now perceived as "cool" and given buzzwords like SPA SSR.

Cool. That's not really the purpose of this though, but github pages works for a bunch of people. SPA and SSR are not anything like this, or github pages for that matter...

No, but from my timeline 30 years into the industry, JS took off, a bunch of front-end developers created an entire slew of frameworks, then they realized that parts of it could be rendered first on the server and hydrated, etc etc.

Then we're back to where we were. Might as well just use JS to fetch the async bits and serve the whole page from the server.

I work on a massive Angular codebase for work, and then try to stay as plain as possible with any side projects.

Re: Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web

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Post by gcanyon »

ryandetzel wrote: post #106
gcanyon wrote: post #48

The obvious (to me) question is: what happens when something goes viral? I love the dollar-per-page idea.

These are static html pages hosted on s3 behind cloutfront so I'm not sure of a better solution to handle high traffic spikes

Sure, I'm more asking about the economics than doubting the ability to handle the load. If the average page has a lifetime hosting/serving cost of $0.20, then great, you're making a tidy profit. But even if that is the average, if there's one page that incurs $100, $1,000... of serving costs, it will be painful to contemplate.

Re: Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web

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Post by culi »

MrVandemar wrote: post #72
culi wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess there's some category bleed going on here. I was originally maintaining a list of "micro-blog"-y sites I wanted to try out. Somewhere along the way it got mixed in with these "easy quick single static page" of services or "basically a txt file" site (e.g. rentry.org) At this point I feel the need to bring up Etherpad which is essentially an encrypted Google Docs alternative but can be used similarly. Ofc ther…

> Twitter is one of the last ones that allow their content to be freely shared but the char limit is a pretty significant limit and even that has popups. I do not believe this to be the case. If not logged in, it will lock the screen and block you reading after a few entries. That's not "free".

Ah I didn't realize that. I think I have a browser extension that prevents this. I agree that's not "free"

Re: Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web

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Post by culi »

jslakro wrote: post #128
culi wrote: post #42

My own collection: - [mmm.page]( https://mmm.page/ ) - [odie.us]( https://odie.us/ ) - [carrd.co]( https://carrd.co/ ) - [write.as]( https://write.as/ ) - [withknown.com]( https://withknown.com/ ) - [micro.blog]( https://micro.blog/ ) - [neocities.org]( https://neocities.org/ ) From this thread: - https://bearblog.dev/ - https://telegra.ph - https://rentry.org/ - https://brick.do/ - https://prose.sh/

https://txt.fyi/ is quite similar

Thanks but I can't edit anymore :/

Also found https://thoughts.page/

Re: Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web

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Post by Exuma »

ryandetzel wrote: post #129
Exuma wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It took you 2 weeks to put stripe library code, and wysiwyg editor library code on one page? This makes this even more funny to me with how you approach people who want an edit feature, as if its surprising and "weird" to you.

Heh, I'm sure you're one of guys that always comments how you don't understand how company X has so many employees, and that you could just write the entire app in a weekend. lol. Note, I didn't say I spend two weeks writing it. If you read the original post you would know that I was doing it to refresh and learn new skills so research and planning went into it to. You win the Internet today bud, thanks for playing.…

Hmm, I have over 100+ non-trivial projects under my belt which have ranged anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 years each, working as only a single developer (and my business partner)... everything from an arbitrage platform with more than 8 billion outgoing requests per day, multiple payment processing platforms (actually building them, not just interfacing with them), machine learning-based high volume routing systems. I built the 50th largest site in the world at one point with only 1 other person... so I would say I'm not "one of those guys." sorry to burst your bubble. I know it's probably much less painful on your ego though to think any person that criticizes you must not know what they're talking about.

Re: Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web

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Post by culi »

reaperducer wrote: post #123
VikingCoder wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Walk into a store with cash. Buy a pre-paid debt card. Use that card to publish. That's anonymous, isn't it? Or does this site not allow that?

Anything involving payment methods is where HN usually gets flooded with people from China and Scandinavia flogging the "cash is dead" horse and how wonderful their rainbows and unicorns world is now that absolutely nothing in they ever encounter requires the use of low-tech bits of evil legacy paper. Then someone like you brings up the value of anonymity, and it's all crickets crickets crickets.

I can safely say I've never experienced such a flood

However I strongly agree with the need to support cash transactions and boycott stores that are "cash free". Most of the time it's just another way to make an environment more hostile towards houseless folks

Re: Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web

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Post by VikingCoder »

culi wrote: post #137
reaperducer wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anything involving payment methods is where HN usually gets flooded with people from China and Scandinavia flogging the "cash is dead" horse and how wonderful their rainbows and unicorns world is now that absolutely nothing in they ever encounter requires the use of low-tech bits of evil legacy paper. Then someone like you brings up the value of anonymity, and it's all crickets crickets crickets.

I can safely say I've never experienced such a flood However I strongly agree with the need to support cash transactions and boycott stores that are "cash free". Most of the time it's just another way to make an environment more hostile towards houseless folks

It's stunning how we've made it so illegal to be without a house.

Re: Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web

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Post by [deleted] »

Exuma wrote: post #136
ryandetzel wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh, I'm sure you're one of guys that always comments how you don't understand how company X has so many employees, and that you could just write the entire app in a weekend. lol. Note, I didn't say I spend two weeks writing it. If you read the original post you would know that I was doing it to refresh and learn new skills so research and planning went into it to. You win the Internet today bud, thanks for playing.…

Hmm, I have over 100+ non-trivial projects under my belt which have ranged anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 years each, working as only a single developer (and my business partner)... everything from an arbitrage platform with more than 8 billion outgoing requests per day, multiple payment processing platforms (actually building them, not just interfacing with them), machine learning-based high volume routing systems. I bu…

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Re: Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web

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Post by culi »

VikingCoder wrote: post #138
culi wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can safely say I've never experienced such a flood However I strongly agree with the need to support cash transactions and boycott stores that are "cash free". Most of the time it's just another way to make an environment more hostile towards houseless folks

It's stunning how we've made it so illegal to be without a house.

Truly. A houseless person was explaining to me the other day how cops can essentially kidnap them whenever they want, leave all their belongings on the street, and bus them to [[nearest city]].

The cops don't care. The legal system's specifically built to protect them and it's not like someone's gonna hire a lawyer sue even if they did have a legal case to make.

I knew a few folks at this one encampment near where I live. The encampment was at the community cultural center's parking lot and the city had been trying to get rid of it forcefully but the cultural center managed to negotiate a deal that they'd have X number of months to peacefully find each member a different place. The main thing most houseless persons want is safety and that encampment was one of the few places people felt safe so there was a lot of pregnant folks and other vulnerable people. Eventually the cops came in illegally at ~5am (they'd tried to do this a few times before but activists were there to scare them away) and kicked everyone out. Many of them lost their wallets and were left with no id or documents or any way to access any benefits or even apply for a spot in a shelter (which were all full and famously shitty places anyways).

We got a few of the most vulnerable folks a few nights at motels but didn't really have a budget for it. One of the motel owners found out that the motel was paid for under a different name than the person who was staying there and they locked them out of their room and kept their stuff

Nothing you can do tbh. The people in this world that are most commonly robbed are houseless people

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