hastebin

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pastebin

SHOW HN2011

131points
68comments
#72of 1,097 in 2011
Top 7%of 2011 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

14 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 14 critical, out of 37 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.

Execution: 0 for, 10 againstDesign: 6 for, 3 againstIdea: 7 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean, minimal, elegant design

    From 4 comments
    • Very cool! You've easily written the best UI for this kind of thing I've yet seen (though a language syntax picker would be nice). Quick question though, why redis vs something…
      andrewvc on HN
    • The use of the solarized colorscheme is wonderful.
      zmanji on HN
    • Very clean and elegant. I like this a lot!
      jwmollman on HN
    • Very nice! It seems about as simple as it could be. One suggestion though, my resolution is quite high and I hate looking to the extremities of my monitor. I don't know how you…
      TomGullen on HN
  • Useful CLI client

    From 2 comments
    • Nice idea on the CLI client.
      VikingCoder on HN
    • Love this feature: --- You can even take this a step further (on OSX) and cut out the last step of copying the URL with: `cat something | haste | pbcopy` After running that, the…
      danso on HN
  • Syntax highlighting works well for many languages

    From 1 comment
    • That is really awesome! It detects my erlang and syntax highlights it beautifully! Very nice, will be using this for all my pastebinning!
      jurre on HN

Objections

  • Textarea showed only two lines in several browsers, now fixed

    From 4 comments
    • Something isn't working right for me. There's no affordance suggesting what to do. If I start typing, I only get two lines of visible text. If I enter more than two lines, the…
      alttag on HN
    • For some reason on Chrome 15 (stable) the body is about 32 pixels high, meaning you can type two lines. Other than that it works nicely.
      rossmasters on HN
    • In chromium on linux, I can only ever see two lines of text at a time. If I type more than two lines, they scroll off the top of the screen. When I move back up with the arrow…
      mjdwitt on HN
    • Awesome! However, when I type/paste i can see only the last line of text, it's somehow confusing. Why not to make textarea take whole height?
      false on HN
  • No affordance showing how to use the site

    From 1 comment
    • The two lines visible part is fixed, but there's still no affordance suggesting how to use the site. The current design targets users who're familiar with other bin sites, and is…
      alttag on HN
  • Changing extension to set language breaks back button

    From 2 comments
    • While you're at it, changing the extension seems to break the back button in Chrome and Safari on OSX.
      jurre on HN
    • I haven't tried reproducing this, but it sounds like he's setting redirects based on GETs. A bad idea all-around, and not only for breaking the back button in this case.
      wahnfrieden on HN
  • Requires JavaScript even for front page

    From 1 comment
    • Requires JavaScript just to show the front page or about page. This instantly makes it worse than other pastebins. Cool design, poor execution.
      MostAwesomeDude on HN

Requests

  • Line numbers

    From 2 comments
    • Nice work. I've been looking for a pastebin server to run on our internal network for a while now and this certainly seems like a winner. Would be useful if there was an option…
      malone on HN
    • Line numbers missing.
      kqueue on HN
  • Language syntax picker

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool! You've easily written the best UI for this kind of thing I've yet seen (though a language syntax picker would be nice). Quick question though, why redis vs something…
      andrewvc on HN
  • More language highlighting such as CoffeeScript and Puppet

    From 2 comments
    • Can you please add support for CoffeeScript highlighting? https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/Text-editor-plugins EDIT: Sorry, I should post this as a Github issue…
      drewda on HN
    • Lovely work - really elegant and simple pastebin server! Wondered whether you could add syntax highlighting for Puppet config files (.pp)?
      jvc26 on HN
  • Favicon

    From 1 comment
    • I really like this. Would it be possible to have show a short summary of the history of a paste? Also, a favicon would be great. :)
      shocks on HN

Questions

  • Why Redis rather than disk-based storage?

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool! You've easily written the best UI for this kind of thing I've yet seen (though a language syntax picker would be nice). Quick question though, why redis vs something…
      andrewvc on HN
  • How many pastes fit in memory per GB?

    From 1 comment
    • Since the author is using Redis for a system like that, I wanted to do some math about how many documents it can store for gigabyte. Assuming a 64 bit instance (that is more…
      antirez on HN

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