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Usage of pastebin expiry feature

Monday, 8 May 2006, 22:54 | Category : Pastebin

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!

7 Comments for “Usage of pastebin expiry feature”

  1. 1DannyIsOnFire

    wrote on 14 May 2006 at 12:50

    Ive been wanting this feature for a long time =)
    Thanks.

  2. 2Robert Wetzlmayr

    wrote on 17 May 2006 at 20:31

    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

  3. 3lordelph

    wrote on 17 May 2006 at 22:00

    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

  4. 4Samuel Tardieu

    wrote on 26 August 2006 at 12:47

    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.

  5. 5Neil

    wrote on 24 February 2007 at 2:34

    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?]“.

  6. 6Vic

    wrote on 14 July 2008 at 23:10

    I would like to see a Delete function enabled for posts that are created (especially when you check the “Remember me” box.)

  7. 7lordelph

    wrote on 15 July 2008 at 9:21

    That’s been available for some time!

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