[wp-forums] Posts, code & codebins

[Jalenack]

How about having our own WP pastebin?
paste.wordpress.org<http://paste.wordpress.org>? Then we wouldn't have
to worry about losing the data.

On 8/25/05, Michael B <miklb.online at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, gee-wizz bang code may be enlightening to one, common place to 
> another. Therefore, they may not think it neccessary to post on their site. 
> Granted, if it seems like it's really helpful, then it could be added to the 
> codex. But as we see all the time, new users don't always know where to 
> look.
> Doesn't mean a link to paste bin wouldn't be useful in some cases.
> 
> On 8/25/05, tg at tannagh.com <tg at tannagh.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I wasn't looking for some permanent solution... if people want to share
> > their gee-wizz-bang code for a solution to something, it really belongs
> > on their site then. I was more thinking of the situation where some one 
> > is having problems with say.. integrating their page listing in their
> > sidebar. And they keep getting an error. It would be handy to have a
> > link to the pastebins so they can post the relevant code so that others
> > can see what's going on. Nothing ruins the forums faster than 25 lines
> > of now badly formated php code. It quickly becomes unreable or gets cut
> > off. It would also be handy for those that feel compelled to post the
> > 150 error messages they get from PHP when there's a rogue white space
> > in some plugin.
> > 
> > Tg
> > 
> > 
> > Scott Merrill <skippy at skippy.net> wrote on 08/25/2005, 07:23:27 PM: 
> > > tg at tannagh.com wrote:
> > > > I was wondering if there would be any benefit to having links to
> > > > pastebin (either one - patebin.com <http://patebin.com> or 
> > paste.uni.cc <http://paste.uni.cc>) near the write post
> > > > text area? Maybe with some text along the lines of "Have some code 
> > to
> > > > post? Please help keep the forums a clean place by storing your code 
> > 
> > > > online at {link to the paste bin here that opens in a new window} 
> > and
> > > > linking to it."
> > >
> > > Most pastebins expire the submissions after some period of time. So in
> > > six months, when someone searches for a whiz-bang solution to their 
> > > problem, the pastebin link will no longer work...
> > >
> > > --
> > > skippy at skippy.net | http://skippy.net/
> > >
> > > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu <http://pgp.mit.edu> --recv-keys 9CFA4B35
> > > 506C F8BB 17AE 8A05 0B49 3544 476A 7DEC 9CFA 4B35
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