Lawrence Oluyede said on November 16, 2006:

Nice work Paul, thanks!

whatever said on November 17, 2006:

Would it be possible to have the categories in "Pastes in the last 30 days" be links ?
(Or is this by design to have security through obscurity ?)

Paul said on November 17, 2006:

From the Philosophy section above: "No running list of recent items means the spammers remain invisible." Unfortunately that includes things like your suggestion. At present I don't have a lot of time or patience for an escalating war against spammers. I get enough of that on my other sites. They can still spam away -- and they do -- but with the current design nobody will idly stumble across their crap. (Manually twiddling ID numbers in the URL doesn't count!)

Paul said on November 17, 2006:

And Lawrence -- you're welcome!

Gabe said on November 17, 2006:

Looks great -- cleaner than lisppaste (and, seeing as lisppaste is down at the moment, maybe more stable). I also like the mostly mouseless interface. Any chance annotation will be added?

Paul said on November 17, 2006:

Gabe: Thanks for the kind words. I'd say that http://paste.lisp.org is my favorite of the "featureful" pastebins though I agree it can be a bit busy visually.

I'm designing an annotation-like feature. My main goals are 1) to keep it clean and simple and 2) to keep the pastebin focused on code rather than conversation.

xav said on November 18, 2006:

Nice ... Me and my IRC freaks will start to USE your django pastebin :) Thanks

Paul said on November 19, 2006:

Bring on the IRC freaks!

GoClick said on December 7, 2006:

This is so useful and speedy and I like the interface a lot more than many other paste bins. Thank you so much.

XSS said on December 16, 2006:

http://dpaste.com/3848/

Paul said on December 19, 2006:

Just fixed that XSS vulnerability -- thanks for the, uh, demo.

Dave said on December 29, 2006:

Love the site. I'm trying to learn Django and have been cruising code samples here and it's been a huge help.

For fun, I made my first Greasemonkey (http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/) script to add Next and Previous buttons.

If anyone is interested, the can check out the GM script at the following URL:

http://insipid.com/code/greasemonkey/...

Paul said on December 30, 2006:

Neat, Dave. I like that approach. Just don't forget that the reason a lot of those pastes are there is that there's something wrong with them!

Dave said on January 1, 2007:

Yeah. I know, but when you're as daft as I am, even broken code can teach you something.

Thanks again for the site.

rae said on January 5, 2007:

well, really nice work, I appreciate it!

rae said on January 5, 2007:

很不错的。

空行被保留？

wiqd said on January 22, 2007:

Very nice site Paul, very clean and simple to use, well done!

As a Django n00b it really helps with getting assistance from a few places without having to repeat myself.

Thanks!

Paul said on January 23, 2007:

You're welcome!

Ben E. said on February 15, 2007:

Was the purging of old database records intentional? Many of the older entries are missing, and that greatly detracts from the usefulness of the IRC logs.

Paul said on February 16, 2007:

Ben: As it says underneath the submission form: 'If you check "Hold", your entry stays around until nobody has looked at it for 30 days; otherwise, entries are deleted after 30 days regardless of viewings.' There's a nightly cronjob that does the cleaning.

I'm happy to revisit the policy if there's interest in changing it -- yours is actually the first request I've gotten. Initial feedback on IRC actually argued for a shorter expiry, like 7 days, but perhaps usage has evolved. Making a sharper distinction between ephemeral and long-term postings might be a good idea. Nobody wants their broken code sitting around forever, but it's nice to have a reliable public repository for pieces of reference code.

Based on feedback just now on IRC I will probably extend the "hold" window to 365 days. I welcome further thoughts on this...

Ben E. said on February 22, 2007:

Hi Paul: Thanks for the response. I haven't actually pasted anything, so I hadn't seen the bit about a 30 day expiry.

I guess I've been leaning toward the never-throw-it-away camp in recent years given the relative cheapness of disk space. That said, 365 days is probably a good compromise between too soon and "forever".

Lau said on February 23, 2007:

Hey, just wanted to say great work with the site. I love the simplicity of the layout, it's nice looking around for the normal stupid menu and realising there isn't one for once :-) *thumbs up*

Paul said on February 27, 2007:

Lau, thanks. I've tried to keep it as simple and un-stupid as possible!

mssnlayam said on March 31, 2007:

It would be nice if the displayed code (with syntax highlighting) had a fixed width format.

Paul said on March 31, 2007:

mssnlayam: Do you mean that long lines should be wrapped? (And if so, should it happen unconditionally or as an option?) Or that a horizontal scrollbar should appear if the code is wider than the window? Or something else? Thanks.

mssnlayam said on March 31, 2007:

Sorry, I meant to say "fixed width font". The current font is not too good for looking at code. The indentation is not shown properly, because spaces and letters occupy different widths.

Paul said on April 1, 2007:

What browser (and version and platform)? The tag has this style rule attached to it:

font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", Monaco, monospace;

mssnlayam said on April 3, 2007:

It is a mistake at my end. Sorry.

Justin said on April 12, 2007:

It would be nice if the "(copy of #1234)" tag in the page header were a link to that respective paste.

Paul said on April 12, 2007:

Jusin -- that's a good idea. When I roll out the "annotations" feature it will enable that kind of thing.

Samat said on April 16, 2007:

Can Java syntax highlighting support be added? Pygments supports it...

Paul said on April 16, 2007:

Samat -- since you asked, sure. The next rev will support several more languages, possible the full Pygments set depending on how I feel that impacts usability.

Gee-Dub Booosh said on April 25, 2007:

Dpaste rocks hard! Thanks for creating it.

Kiryn said on May 3, 2007:

Add C++ to the list. :(

pfein said on May 13, 2007:

Is there a python *client* library? I could probably write one if you've got a documented REST api...

pfein@irc.freenode.net

Peter Fein said on May 14, 2007:

Eh, I was bored today, so I wrote a client library; requires twill & argparse. Also have a kde extension that works with klipper, using pykde

http://pfein.s3.amazonaws.com/dpaster...

whatever said on May 14, 2007:

great site. I still prefer other sites like http://www.pastebin.be because these have more languages. dpaste doesnt even have PHP or C/C++.

Paul said on May 14, 2007:

Peter -- very cool! At some point I may make a "real" API and will try to remember to let you know.

Kiryn and "whatever": more languages are coming soon. Pygments has a great selection. The lack of variety has been deliberate -- there's no PHP or C++ in a Django app. But dpaste seems to be attracting a wider audience now and it's easy for me to oblige.

Dmitry said on June 25, 2007:

Very nice project! But HOW can I get access to the code samples???? Here are no links to!

Paul said on June 25, 2007:

Dmitry: This isn't really a repository of code samples. Pastebins are for troubleshooting, which means they're full of broken code! Try http://www.djangosnippets.org/ for a browsable, permanent collection.

Neal McBurnett said on July 3, 2007:

This is almost exactly what I was looking for (no "recent posts"), and in my favorite language and framework (django) also!!

I'd suggest you go just one little step further and make the URL random enough that folks can't enumerate them. Not that we can expect a lot of privacy, but it would help for those that don't even know they're pasting a password by mistake.

http://mcburnett.org/neal/

Stefan Lange said on July 16, 2007:

I fully agree with Neal - nice service, Django based, but URLs should be somehow randomized in order to make it a little bit more harder to look for other people's pastings ...
What about securing pastings with a password?

Greatings from Germany!

Paul said on July 18, 2007:

I'm more inclined toward pseudo-GUIDs (hashes) than passwords -- less fuss.

Neal McBurnett said on July 26, 2007:

I agree that passwords would introduce a lot more fuss and not really help, since the passwords would have to be shared along with the URLs.

I'd suggest that the pseudo-GUID doesn't need to be as long as a standard GUID, and a shorter URL has fewer ccpy-and-paste problems. 10 random alphanumerics should be enough so that a random URL is valid less than one in a trillion times. At that rate, successful attacks would also be year-long Denial Of Service attacks and would have to be dealt with by other means.

Rohan B. Dhruva said on July 28, 2007:

Wow, it's a clean, and pleasing site with very high usability. If you could include more syntax highlightable languages, like C++ Java it'd be wonderful. I know there are other sites, and that this one is mostly for Django, but this site is so wonderfully clean and usable that I want to use it for any paste ! :)

NiCoS said on July 31, 2007:

Hello,

Any progress on releasing dpaste code in open source ?

Regards,
Nicolas

Dimitris Glezos said on September 14, 2007:

Wondering if there is an update on releasing the source code?

Paul said on September 15, 2007:

Dimitris, Nicolas: Sorry, plans to clean up and release the dpaste code have been sidelined by other work. I've got a long to-do list of pending changes, and honestly, it's not that interesting -- the generic-view version (linked above) is more elegant.

Also, a pastebin is a pretty simple app. If you're looking to learn Django by example, there are dozens of sites with code here: http://www.djangosites.org/with-source/ and hundreds of projects here: http://code.google.com/hosting/search...

Enjoy!

Uqbar said on September 27, 2007:

Hello, I think that bash syntax highlighting is a bit buggy: have a look at the last lines of this script: http://dpaste.com/hold/20845/

Frank Gutierrez said on October 25, 2007:

Can you please add perl support?

Paul said on October 26, 2007:

Uqbar: noted, I'll see if updating Pygments fixes that.

Frank: Will do. A number of languages are going to get added and Perl is among them.

treeform said on October 30, 2007:

i use the app alot.

i wonder if we can have "auto detect" style that would match what ever you put. As you put more languages the drop down will get crowded. Maybe you can have 5 most used styles by user check boxes based on the users cookie?

Paul said on November 15, 2007:

treeform: Pygments does have some auto-detection code which works fairly well, but last time I checked they were advising against using it. I'll check again, though, because I like the idea. As for most-used styles, I suspect that would be overkill for most users. I will be grouping things in the language drop-down to make it more navigable, and may introduce a way for users to choose exactly what choices are in it.

Skeeterbug said on November 21, 2007:

You might want to change http://dpaste.com/admin/ to something different in your URL mapping.

n2j3 said on December 1, 2007:

great site, nice design / usability

shaun said on December 6, 2007:

I use dpaste a _ton_ - thanks for providing the resource. It's easy to use, fast, and well thought out.

My only question is if there's any plans to provide PHP syntax coloring?

Thanks again for your work.

Paul said on December 18, 2007:

Skeeterbug - noted, thanks.

n2j3 - thanks, I try to keep it simple!

shaun - Glad to be of use. PHP will probably be added in the next round.

Alex T said on January 3, 2008:

I love the site and have been using it for a while now. I think http://dpaste.com would shoot up in popularity if you added PHP, C/C++/C# and Java, though. I'm sure such a clean and user-friendly site would be appreciated by a wider coding community.

I can only agree with suggestions to add a small hash to URLs in order to avoid guessing them, or maybe you could implement this feature for 'hold' URLs only?

And as Skeeterbug has pointed out, /admin/ is still accessible to regular users. You might want to remove django.contrib.admin from the 'INSTALLED APPS' settings, or write your own administrative views (with a hard-to-guess URL) and restrict them to your user account.

anonymous said on January 15, 2008:

great website

Billy Eatman said on January 23, 2008:

Could you add coldfusion color coding?

Gemini said on January 25, 2008:

Not sure if it's possible, but i'd like to see an option added to wrap lines (which is usefull when you're pasting plain text, but might also have other uses).

Chris said on January 30, 2008:

Yes, I would also like PHP syntax highlighting. Great work! Great resource, thank you very much :)

Ganesh said on February 3, 2008:

Simple and straightforward. Nice work

Ariel said on February 7, 2008:

Is it pony enabled?

Paul said on February 12, 2008:

Ariel: dpaste possesses enterprise-level pony functionality. And thanks to Django, adding it to the site took less than five minutes!

cbmeeks said on February 21, 2008:

This site freakin' rocks.

cbmeeks

arnuld(at)ippimail(dot)com said on February 24, 2008:

nice, the simplicity and usability of dpaste is excellent. I am quite impressed with the design of this site :)

keep up the good work guys :)

orzel said on March 5, 2008:

Please, Paul, makes the code available. Even if it doesn't match your (too?) high cleanness criteria.

ravish said on March 12, 2008:

Great Work and deserves tonnes of appreciations..

would be greatest if u could add ActionScript into the list.

keep going.. :)

kleptos said on March 14, 2008:

buggy highlight:
http://dpaste.com/39432/ second line: as highlited as keyword in module name.

Anderson said on March 15, 2008:

Please add Java support! Thanks.

rohitj said on March 30, 2008:

Hey,

I made a plugin for xchat, so that people could dpaste directly from xchat, rather than opening firefox and then copy pasting link. here is the link http://www.rohitj.net/blog/2008/03/28...

Paul said on April 1, 2008:

rohitj - cool!

alert("hacked by xN") said on April 6, 2008:

alert("hacked by xN")

toxik said on April 8, 2008:

I'd like to see this Django app. go open-source.

Also hah at the fail above this comment.

Paul said on April 9, 2008:

Heh. An "honor system" exploit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_sy...).

I would like to release the source to dpaste at some point. Right now I'm working hard on finishing our Django book, and one of the example apps in there is in fact a pastebin. The code to the apps in the book will be released under an open source license. I know that's not very satisfying in the here and now!

Patrick said on April 11, 2008:

I know all you web 2.0 programmers have a valid distaste for procedural languages, but for us old timers, how about a C# and Java formatting option?

Fredrik said on April 16, 2008:

How about adding a print stylesheet that removes the "New" link, the "This is your most recent paste" stuff, and other potentially unnecessary stuff?

jlilly said on April 17, 2008:

Any chance we could have pastes searchable by username? ie the name we type into the box when we post?

Paul said on April 20, 2008:

Patrick: Yes, I'll be adding more language support "soon" (q.v. earlier comment about finishing book!)

Fredrik: Good idea. Done!

jlilly: My simple anti-spam strategy ("If spam falls in a pastebin, and nobody sees it, it doesn't exist") has led me to eschew search/browse features. I wouldn't mind giving users the ability to see their own histories though. Let me know your use-case (here or in email) and I can think more about it.