On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 04:48:17PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> Prior to Noble, the pastebinit command defaulted to paste.ubuntu.com. In
> Noble, this has changed to dpaste.com due to an upstream change[1].
> What do Ubuntu developers think the default should be? If it should
> remain paste.ubuntu.com, we can ask upstream to change it back, or add a
> delta for now.
> Reason to keep it dpaste.com:
> People have complained that the login requirement makes it unusable for
> helping Ubuntu users at large who don't necessarily have an Ubuntu SSO
> account.
> Reason to keep it paste.ubuntu.com:
> I'm not keen on relying on third party services when not necessary,
> especially ad-supported ones. I have no reason to distrust the current
> operator, but in general, these things tend to go wrong sooner or later.
> There was more discussion on IRC[2].
> [1] https://github.com/pastebinit/pastebinit/commit/5c668fb3ed9b4a103eb22b16e603050a539951e0
> [2] https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2024/04/15/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t14:17
I was not pleased to see the switch to dpaste.com. I've found that it's
pretty unusable on mobile, and I don't like this pointing to a service we
don't control.
And if there are issues with the usability of paste.ubuntu.com, uh, we own
that service? So let's work with our IS team to make it fit for purpose.
(I don't know why it currently requires a login to *view* paste contents;
that seems straightforwardly a bug that we should just get sorted.)
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