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How HN took it
9 positive, 34 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 41 critical, out of 85 comments about the project. Thread score -0.37.
Idea: 7 for, 19 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 12 againstPerformance: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting concept for sharing pages via links
From 2 comments
I think a few folks are missing the point. How are web pages shared? By distributing links. How are pages censored? By deplatforming. This usually happens by activists targeting…
mmaunder on HNCool! I like projects like this, which contain their state in the URL so you can share it. Another such tool is [1] This gradient generator, which encodes the gradient parameters…
gitgud on HN
Objections
Pages can be abused for XSS and illegal content distribution
From 2 comments
I fail to see how this isn't ripe for abuse. I can execute javascript in a person's browser using your domain. http://tinyurl.com/y5m7o4j8
geekamongus on HNSimilar to this [0] from a few years ago. That one also had some basic encryption included. Some previous discussions[1,2] of that tool highlights that this can easily be abused…
MJSplot_author on HN
Links are not a hosting-free solution; the link host can still be taken down
From 1 comment
>cannot be taken down But all you did is shift the burden of hosting it to wherever you post the link, which can still take down your link.
gruez on HN
Data URLs already do the same thing
From 3 comments
what about data urls? No need for hosting page: data:text/html,%3Ch1%3EHello%2C%20World!%3C%2Fh1%3E
SigmundA on HNI don't see any effective difference between putting the data in a URL and putting the data in a local HTML file and opening the file in a browser. (And if you're going to put…
lisper on HNYou could just use data URLs. For example: ``` data:text/html,<p>Hello%20World</p> ```
knolax on HN
Requires JavaScript, so it fails in some browsers and Tor
From 2 comments
This and IPFS/Tor are not mutually exclusive. The one sticking point is that this requires JavaScript to work, which is disabled by default in most tor installations.
jstrieb on HN>See the "published" version here Doesn't work in Safari (Mojave)
tambourine_man on HN
Requests
Add a data: URI format option
From 1 comment
This is neat but lacking the obvious data-uri format which similar services implement: ``` data:text/html;base64,... ```
brod on HN
Support encryption and password protection
From 1 comment
Added to the TODO section in the repo. I agree that it seems pretty doable to implement digital signatures, and similarly to support encrypting and password-protecting URL Pages.…
jstrieb on HN
Fix Safari compatibility
From 2 comments
>See the "published" version here Doesn't work in Safari (Mojave)
tambourine_man on HNI don’t get anything other than a page with three text areas on iOS’s Safari.
davidcollantes on HN
Questions
How are recursive links added?
From 1 comment
How do you add recursive links?
amelius on HN
Are short links hosted on tinyurl?
From 1 comment
When you use "Short link to publish" in the editor, you are basically hosting it in tinyurl???
evncr on HN
Alternatives named
Data URLs
From 2 comments
what about data urls? No need for hosting page: data:text/html,%3Ch1%3EHello%2C%20World!%3C%2Fh1%3E
SigmundA on HNYou could just use data URLs. For example: ``` data:text/html,<p>Hello%20World</p> ```
knolax on HN
itty.bitty.site
From 1 comment
This reminds me of https://itty.bitty.site/edit, which does the exact same thing but with a size limit, no in browser editor, and if I'm not mistaken, a compression algorithm.
mjtlittle on HN
flems.io and PrivateBin
From 2 comments
Makes me think of https://privatebin.info and https://flems.io which also entirely store the content of the webpage in the URL. (Flems is like a codepen)
fouc on HNReminds me of https://flems.io/
keb_ on HN
Encrypted no_host page maker
From 1 comment
Similar to this [0] from a few years ago. That one also had some basic encryption included. Some previous discussions[1,2] of that tool highlights that this can easily be abused…
MJSplot_author on HN