About dpaste.com

The story

I created this pastebin in 2006 and it's been in continuous service ever since. I made it for my fellow early-adopter Django coders in Freenode's #django IRC channel.

It caught on. By Django 1.0, the "Share this traceback" button using dpaste.com was added to Django's debug page. It remains there today.

dpaste 2.0 launched in 2014: more syntax choices, session-based features like history and deletion, soft wrap, and a status feed.

dpaste 3.0 arrived in 2020: user accounts, responsive layouts, 474 syntax choices, reliability improvements, and TLS.

I welcome comments and questions — Paul Bissex

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?