As there’s been some cases of cracked email address lists being posted on pastebin recently, this week I tweaked the spam filtering to block such posts. A few legitimate posts got caught in the crossfire, causing a few more tweaks to the rules.
If you’re having trouble posting something because pastebin says it looks like spam, [...]
A few people have emailed me recently disappointed by the level of spam postings on pastebin.com. I’ve never really understood why spammers bother, but as they are bothering in increasing numbers it was time to take some action.
Last night I built in some spam filtering which has caught hundreds of posts since going live. I [...]
Just been checking the stats on pastebin.com and clearly the recent changes have worked well! Usage has trebled since last week and it’s still very responsive.
It’s nice to see that people still want to use it, so I’m going to ride this wave of enthusiasm and improve it further over the coming weeks.
Your feedback, as [...]
Well, I promised it waaaay back in january, but I’ve finally released an update to pastebin.com. A few people have asked for the source over the past few months and have seen some of the updates already, but here’s what’s new…
MySQL storage replaced with file-based storage, making it much faster
Revamped the colour scheme, which has [...]
A number of people have emailed or left comments frustrated by the speed of pastebin. Over the past few months I’ve spent the odd ten minutes here and there tweaking it in the face of ever-increasing load. It’s clear the software just isn’t up to the task anymore, which was particularly evidenced by a recent [...]
I’m rarely “off the grid” but while away camping over the weekend the pastebin database seems to have suffered a pretty catastrophic failure. For the time being I’ve reset it while I investigate…
Thanks to the (many!) folks who alerted me!
Edit: OK, I’ve restored a backup from a few weeks ago, which means most recent posts [...]
Pastebin never used to retain more than a few thousand posts, but the recent feature to allow longer post retention exposed a few performance issues. If you noticed pastebin.com being a little slow, my apologies.
I’ve made a number of fixes to address the problem, if you notice further issues, do let me know with [...]
I’ve been wondering if anyone would like a translated version of Pastebin? It gets a lot of use from Germany – any German coders want to volunteer some translated text? Happy to do other languages too, add a comment below if this of interest (either as a translator or pastebin user)
(EDIT: I’ve had offers [...]
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 [...]
Pastebin was conceived as a way to post code into an IRC or IM conversation, so the post itself was thought to be quite ephemeral. Therefore, the database didn’t retain posts for very long. However, this has surprised some users, who expected a little more permanence.
I’ve rectified this in v0.50. There are three options to [...]
