Am Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 11:52:39AM +0100 schrieb Alexander Wirt: > Am Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 10:48:26PM +0100 schrieb Antoine Le Gonidec: > > Le Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 08:27:23PM +0000, Simon McVittie a écrit : > > > Orthogonal to that enhancement, perhaps a better home for long-term > > > content > > > shared with the world would be a git repo on Salsa, or a project on Salsa > > > with the "Snippets" feature enabled (that's Gitlab's equivalent of > > > Github's > > > "Gist")? > > > > I think the main problem here is that josch was looking for a solution > > working > > on slow networks and ~old hardware. That takes Salsa/GitLab out of the > > options. > > > > Sure, there might be ways to interact with Salsa that do not involve its > > Web UI, > > but I suspect learning to use such tools would be a much bigger investent in > > time and energy than simply running pastebinit from a terminal. > > > > To avoid confusion: I too think we should provide a better option than > > pastes > > without an expiration date. I just don´t think that Salsa can be that option > > for everyone (especially outside of Western Europe and USA). > > I had the stupid idea for a simple snippet service that just renders > markdown, text, asciidoc > (basically we could do whatever pandoc does). I gave it a simple try. > > https://snippets.snow-crash.org/2026_01_14_announcement/ (if people find that > useful it will get > snippets.debian.net or whatever). > > just commit your snippet in https://salsa.debian.org/debian/snippets. ensure > it ends on .md, .adoc or .txt. > See it happen on https://snippets.snow-crash.org (I use slugify for > sanitizing filenames). > > https://salsa.debian.org/formorer/snippets.debian.net has the source (please > don't look to deep into it).
No one? really? Seem like I had a stupid idea. Alex
