paste
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pastebin
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11points
31comments
#1,314of 1,739 in 2013
Top 76%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.
Design: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, simple, beautiful design
From 3 comments
I like this a lot. It's super simplistic and ultimately out-of-the-way. The design is nice. A couple things I would add would probably be some way to do syntax highlighting and a…
Posibyte on HNI never thought I'd find a paste bin to be beautiful but damnit, wrong again.
jimmytucson on HNPretty Nice. Couple of small issues I noticed: If you try to save an empty Paste you get a server error. Also, The Save Icon itself feels very 1990s to me, you might want to…
bradsmithinc on HN
Objections
Blank page without JavaScript
From 2 comments
Loads to a blank white page with JavaScript disabled. Utter failure.
mfincham on HNYou're right, "utter failure" might be taking things too far. "Consider the target audience of this. It'll be more technically inclined people. It's again safe to assume these…
mfincham on HN
Syntax highlighting detection is weak and has bugs
From 2 comments
It does have syntax highlighting, but the detection is not very good yet. At any rate, you can always change the extension on the URL and it will try to highlight that language.…
jdiez17 on HNThere's a bug in google code prettify which your syntax highlighting also shows: http://paste.pm/134.sh relevant bug:…
niggler on HN
Empty paste causes server error
From 1 comment
Pretty Nice. Couple of small issues I noticed: If you try to save an empty Paste you get a server error. Also, The Save Icon itself feels very 1990s to me, you might want to…
bradsmithinc on HN
Requests
Shell client for piping output into pastes
From 1 comment
hastebin has shown me what a good paste service should support. The most important thing is a shell client (`do_something | haste`). What is the analogue for this service?
niggler on HN
Named paste URLs instead of numeric IDs
From 1 comment
Im using the web interface, and every time i save it seems to default to a number (e.g. http://paste.pm/108)
niggler on HN
Questions
Is there syntax highlighting for shell scripts?
From 1 comment
Is there syntax highlighting for shell scripts (.sh)?
niggler on HN
Alternatives named
hastebin
From 1 comment
hastebin has shown me what a good paste service should support. The most important thing is a shell client (`do_something | haste`). What is the analogue for this service?
niggler on HN
writeapp.me
From 1 comment
It's funny you mention that because I'm working on it now. Maybe it's not exactly what you're looking for but it might be close. It's https://writeapp.me Before (or if) you check…
bpatrianakos on HN