Txti is fast web pages for everybody. Most of the world still does not have internet, but many websites from countries like the United States are big and complicated. This makes it hard for people with slow internet to use these sites. It is even harder for those people to put their own thoughts on the internet. With txti, anyone can use any device to share their story.
Txti was created by Barry T. Smith because he believes that high speed internet is a responsibility, not a service people buy. He got a lot of help from his friend Adam Newbold.
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.
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?
"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.
That is not true that most of the world doesn't have internet. Multiple sources say it is about 64% by now. You should be careful about thinking the world is worse off than it is. Thinking former developing countries is worse off than rich countries is most of the time a outdated world view.
It is equally unhelpful conflating number of internet users with coverage and internet accessibility.
It is of no good to you that you have internet connection but the website or whatever doesn't load because you are only on a slow cell phone connection somewhere in the middle of Africa or India, where cheap "feature phones" are the only way to access internet (and thus government services, for ex.)
Or if you have connectivity in the capital and one or two major cities - and the remaining 90% of the country is "dark" because of missing infrastructure, both electrical and communications (many African countries).
Txti was created NINE YEARS AGO with a simple and benevolent mission: to play a part in a more globally accessible internet. Since then, the whole world has changed. Now, there is less need for web pages that work on flip phones[...]
- from the linked page, emphasis mine; presumably the about page the "most of the world does not have internet" line comes from was also created nine years ago.
