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Ghostbin

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Ghostbin is a paste service, and I’m going to skip explaining precisely what that is—it’s fairly obvious. The real interesting questions are “why did you build it?” and “where did I get all these bees?”

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Online
  • jQuery
  • Bootstrap
Discontinued

This repository has been archived by the owner before Nov 9, 2022.

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Features

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  1.  Support for MarkDown
  2.  Online Sharing
  3.  Code Sharing
  4.  Pastebin

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Ghostbin information

  • Developed by

    US flagDustin L. Howett
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.3
  • Alternatives

    55 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  192 Stars
  •  60 Forks
  •  30 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 14, 2019 (Archived)
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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Ghostbin, and it has gotten 33 likes

Ghostbin was added to AlternativeTo by Tim_B on Dec 5, 2015 and this page was last updated Feb 1, 2023.

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Top Positive Comment
ab1
May 6, 2022
0

No problem with 2,1 MB so far...

Top Negative Comment
Lunatica
Jul 5, 2018
0

When the website isn't down, it's very good. It has a nice UI and, essentially, the same features as Pastebin (e.g. raw visualization, expiration options, password encryption, etc). Moreover, it's opensource. However, the code hadn't an update since December 2017, and now the website isn't working anymore. I can't access a significant amount of code i had previously uploaded there. There are users at its GitHub repository reporting issues like: "[Ghostbin] seems to work for a few days and then go down for a week". Although it's a really good web application, it seems to be an unreliable text storage website, which, for me, is the most pressing prioritie for a site like ghostbin.

[Edited by Lunatica, July 05]

General User
May 8, 2019
2

Will be discontinued at the end of May 2019. See the about page for information.

David
May 8, 2019

Thanks for reporting it! We've gotten the listing updated with a 'discontinued' notice. Really appreciate your help, have an awesome day!

TerrifiedTyphlosion
Nov 28, 2018
0

The project seems to be slow in updates, but the service still works quite well for me. If you so choose, you can make an account solely to keep track of your own pastes.

As an aside, the website uses Cloudflare for DDoS protection. Take that how you will.

What is Ghostbin?

Ghostbin is a paste service, and I’m going to skip explaining precisely what that is—it’s fairly obvious. The real interesting questions are “why did you build it?” and “where did I get all these bees?”

For the first, I’d like to first list my inspirations and driving motives. When I started, I’d recently fallen in love with a small font named Envy Code R. I’d wanted to put together a paste service (under my own control) for some time, and Envy provided the final impetus; It made my code look awesome—more awesome, in fact, than my code truly was.

At nearly the same time, I’d decided that I wanted to learn Go. The confluence of these two endeavours could not have been more piquant.

Other popular, functional and attractive pastebin services certainly do exist, but I found them to be somewhat lacking:

  • Pastie was cool, but the ability to delete private pastes eventually evaporated. Later, the ability to even edit private pastes—which was rather useful for affecting a simulacrum of deletion—vanished. Pastie is not private by default.
  • Pastee is private by default and provides both encryption and expiration, but it looks like it tumbled from the proverbial ugly tree. It’s functional, though, and that’s great. It seems to use pygments, much like Ghostbin, but it doesn’t appear to have an updated language list.
  • Hastebin looks neat. I have no qualms with it. Ghostbin is an attempt at not only solving the above, but also solving some issues in the industry such as, but not limited to, me not knowing Go. It’s open-source and I don’t think it’ll be going anywhere any time soon. It supports encryption, expiration, pastes up to one megabyte, and about six billion languages. Well, some hundreds at the very least. Also, doesn’t that paint job look simply dandy?

And—get your bees away from me. I don’t even know what you were expecting in bringing them here.

Source code is available at https://github.com/DHowett/ghostbin and http://git.howett.net/paste.git

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