Potential for merging with another project

[tecosaur]

Hello!

I've just stumbled across this, and it looks pretty neat.

I've been running https://github.com/szabodanika/microbin on a personal server myself, and at a glance it looks like it might make sense to put that project and yours together in a backend/frontend kind of way.

To elaborate on what I see:

Attribute	Rustypaste	Microbin
Purpose	Uploader CLI	Uploader WebGUI
Language	Rust	Rust
Custom expiry	yes	yes
URL shortening	yes	yes
Listing/deleting	yes	yes

This makes me wonder if the front-end of Microbin could be put on top of Rustypaste, to make a all-in-one simple personal pastebin that can be used from the terminal and browser.

I realise that this is quite a bit of work, and a major change. I'm raising in case you think this could be a fun idea, and because while Microbin is in good shape, it's no longer actively maintained.

Regardless, it's fun to see more work in the lightweight personal pastebin space 🙂

[tessus]

I seriously doubt this would work. The architectures are too different. I also remember that Microbin did not have authentication at all. Not sure if that is still the case.

Personally I am not a frontend dev and I am not sure whether adding it would fit into the design philosophy of this project. Maybe orhun can give his input on this as well.

P.S.: I'll move this conversation since it is more a discussion than an issue.

[orhun]

Hey, yeah... I'm not so sure about this. I'm afraid it might end up with more maintenance burden. Right now I'm pretty happy with the stability of rustypaste and the gradual flow that we roll out new features so I'd like to keep it that way :)

Thanks for bringing this up as an idea though!

[tecosaur]

(Doing another round of "GitHub stuff I haven't got back to people on")

With a number of projects I'm maintaining to various standards, I'm acutely aware of the need to defend against feature creep.

I think there could be some value in laying out a bit more of my thinking though. I find myself engaging in three sorts of uploading/sharing activities:

1. ix.io/0x0.st -style: Quick little personal code-related things, e.g. code snippets, stacktraces, getting content between devices that don't talk to each other.
2. Microbin-style: Odd web-based uploads from various devices, including my phone and other people's computers
3. WeTransfer/Palmr: Getting people to share things with me

Rustypaste currently strikes me as mostly sitting in category 1. Meanwhile other projects like Palmr cover 2/3.

It's in this regard that I'm very interested in a minimalist but capable service that covers 1, 2, and 3 solidly.

I'm not necessarily advocating that Rustypaste should expand to cover all three, but it seems to me that a really solid network upload implementation is the bulk of the work in all three use cases, and it's in that regard that I'd be interested to see Rustypaste a building block in a more comprehensive solution that what we currently have.

[orhun]

Yeah I agree, I think those could be nice things to include in a rewrite or a v1/v2 release. Maybe we could start a new discussion for listing things that would be nice to have if we reimagined rustypaste?

[tessus]

There you go: #483