What is Pastie.ru?
Pastie.ru is an online service that allows users to store and share snippets of text, code, logs, configs etc. It was created in 2008 as a simple tool for programmers and developers to quickly share pieces of code or configs between themselves or with others.
Some key features of Pastie.ru include:
- Public and private pastes - Users can make their pastes either public for anyone to view, or private that require a unique URL to access.
- Syntax highlighting - Automatic highlighting for languages like Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS etc. to make code snippets easy to read.
- Customizable expiration times - Users can set expiration times for their snippets to be kept from 1 hour to 1 year before being deleted automatically.
- Editable pastes - Ability to edit and overwrite existing snippets after creating them.
- Text and file uploads - Users can directly type text or upload text/config files to share.
- Chrome extension - Browser extension allowing saving selections to Pastie quickly.
- RSS feeds of latest public pastes for site updates.
By offering permanent links to sharable text content with customizable privacy and expiration, Pastie.ru provides a simple way for developers, sysadmins, writers and others to store textual information online and exchange it when needed.