About dpaste.com

The story

I (Paul Bissex) created this pastebin in 2006 and it's been in continuous service ever since.

I originally made it for my fellow early-adopter Django coders in Freenode's #django IRC channel. It caught on. By Django 1.0 (2008), the "Share this traceback" button using dpaste.com was added to Django's debug page, and it remains there today.

I've made regular improvements over the years, but my primary focus is on keeping it usable and reliable.

The latest big update (summer 2020) brought user accounts, responsive layouts, and HTTPS.

I welcome comments and questions.

Base 32 IDs

Item IDs are base 32, with the digits chosen to minimize ambiguity. IDs never use the digits zero or one (0, 1) nor the capital letters that look like them (O, I). This helps if you need to read one to somebody, or transcribe it without copy/paste. (IDs are also case-insensitive, though uppercase is canonical.)

Construction

• Application language: Python 3.x
• Application framework: Django 2.x
• Application hosting: Python Anywhere
• Database: MySQL
• HTML/CSS framework: Skeleton
• Syntax coloring: Pygments
• Auth extensions: django-allauth, mozilla-django-oidc
• Geo lookup: GeoPy
• Fonts: Google Fonts
• TLS Certificate: Let's Encrypt
• Project hosting: Sourcehut
• Version control: Mercurial

Where's the source?