So I’ve been working on a major Paste2.org update for a while now. One of the major things I’m currently doing with it is making it work in the application server I described in my previous post. The improvements in performance will mean it’ll scale to the traffic increases it’s been getting for some time to come without needing to upgrade it’s infrastructure. A few times paste2 has came very close to breaking into the top 10k sites in the Alexa rankings, and consistently hanging around the 20k mark, meaning it’s my most successful personally-owned site to date. To some people it might not be that impressive but I guess it’s a bit of a milestone for sites I personally own.
I’ve also either added or are working on adding a few new features.
Screenshot of the new template, I know, the logo is horrible!
The first one that’s pretty much done is diffing between pastes. Essentially you can diff between pastes and in the page you’d be able to quickly, on the click of one button, be able to show the diff of the two pastes without messing around entering numbers.
Secondly the site has a new theme that I’m pretty happy with now. It’s lighter and much cleaner, and will hopefully provide a better experience for users.
I also want to add (text) file uploading to paste2 when creating pastes. When you have a big file pasting it in a browser window can be really annoying.
Another major project I want to do is to have a remote API using probably SOAP for people that want to create tools for interacting with the site.
I’ll be trying to get a beta up as soon as I can but some current work commitments mean I can’t spend as much time on it as I’d like.
On the note of scripts interacting with paste2 I was contacted by Andy Stewart regarding the Emacs script he created for interacting with paste2.org. After a few emails back and forth I implemented a feature for getting raw content of pastes so they can be grabbed by his script. I don’t use Emacs personally, but it looks useful.