The new expiry option has been live at pastebin.com for over 24 hours, it’s been interesting to see the usage patterns. There have been just under 2000 posts in the past day, breaking down as follows:
- 33% expire in a day
- 64% expire in a month
- 3% never expire
In a few days I’ll take a look at some of the “permanent” posts to see what other features might be useful…in meantime, feel free to make suggestions by commenting below!
Ive been wanting this feature for a long time =)
Thanks.
It might be of interest to you that some members of the Textpattern community (me being one of them) use pastebin.com as a code clipboard while discussing web templating quirks and the like.
Due to the nature of Textpattern’s own support forum it is a royal PITA to post code there (Textile markup helper helps too much sometimes, especially with php-like postings).
As some of these code snippets might turn into a somehow valuable resource for posterity, I do not want thme to vanish and thus choose “eternal life” for those.
Thanks a zillion,
Robert
Glad it’s of use. Once I’m completed the translation work, I’ll be turning my attention to making a lot more useful for permanent code snippets
Thanks for the permanent feature. It makes it easy to use pastebin and paste the URL into a blog comment entry. Without using pastebin, you are never sure how your code excerpt will be formatted by the blogging software, especially when it contains HTML markers.
It’d be interesting to see if the statistics remain the same if you switch the default over to something else, (going to 1-day would probably be safest).
Another idea is an option like, “After not viewed for at least [timeframe…48 hours, say?]”.
I would like to see a Delete function enabled for posts that are created (especially when you check the “Remember me” box.)
That’s been available for some time!