Zeronet: IDEA: ZeroPaste

[ghost]

A pastebin-like system in which posts expire after some (perhaps selectable) amount of time.

[ghost]

+1

[naab]

The technical issue with the "expires after some amount of time", is that a User able to delete the pad (the guy who created it, or maybe a set of persons) NEEDS to access the website some way, in order to publish the deletion to the network (after the time is elapsed).
You may authorize a group of persons to moderate (ie: able to delete files automatically), but you have to trust these guys. Or code a bot with admin rights doing the job.

To resume, it's not that easy to have an auto-deletion mechanism in a p2p system.

(some will say that the least access content will disappear after some time in p2p, but that would be true if zeronet wasn't trying to download the whole site all day long. Because of this, all the unused content is still spread out.)

The solution may be a configurable TTL (time to live) or even a TSLV (time since last visit(or|ed) ?) for site files, so it can be handled by zeronet in the communication protocol right away. (which is not the case now).

I want to open an improvement ticket about this.

[ThomasdenH]

Can't the original user give the content an expiration date after which users won't share the content anymore?

[naab]

Edit : It's not possible to change the file sharing policy,
but you can set "Optional files" :
Issue https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet/issues/163

[deavmi]

Who said pastses had to expire? :)

[TheNain38]

It could be something like cryptobin, it could encrypt the paste using symmetric cryptography, and users should know the password to decrypt it... And the user could delete a paste he created, as it will be signed by him.

[imachug]

For those who are still searching for ZeroPaste: NullPaste. And my alternative to JSFiddle/CodePen: CodeR

[imachug]

@HelloZeroNet Can we close this?

[imachug]

@HelloZeroNet Thanks!