FAQ
An attempt to answer frequently asked questions, and document - the detail of site features. As with all software documentation, + the details of site features. As with all software documentation, this is how the developer thinks these things work, to find out how things actually work, see the source code. -How do a register an account?
+How do I register an account?
You can go here to register an account, although you can also post pastes and comments anonymously.Parsers? What are those?
- Parsers are the way you can style the text you post. While + Parsers are how you can style the text you post. While this software started as a pastebin clone, the need to style text better than pastebin.com quickly became apparent. Two parsers are currently available: @@ -37,9 +37,7 @@Surround text with forum-style [spoiler] and [/spoiler] tags as a second way to spoiler
Surround text with forum-style [code] and [/code] tags to make it -
-Preformatted and monospace
-
+ Preformatted and monospace
If you have incomplete markup at the end, it shouldn't break anything, let me know if it does.
How does search work?
@@ -47,33 +45,33 @@ Preformatted and monospace At it's most simple, it searches stories based on tags, but it can also filter stories based on: title, author, date, and hits. In general, the syntax for search is -+|-<field>>operator<>value<
+ {+-} <field> <operator> <value>
The first +
or -
specifies
weather to include or exclude results based on this
search, the <field>
specifies what
field to search for (or search based on tag if this is
missing), and <operator>
specifies
how to search.
-
For title, and author, the only allowed operator is
- =
. This operator will search for the text
+
For title and author, the only allowed operator is
+ =
. This operator will search for <value>
appearing anywhere in the field, case insensitive. For
hits and time, the allowed operators are
>
,<
,>=
,
<=
,=
, which searches for
greater than, less than, greater than or equal to, less
than or equal to, and strictly equal to, respectively.
- Tag does not need a field or operator, and only allows
+ Tag does not need a <field>
or <operator>
, and only allows
exact matches. As a quirk of this system, it is
impossible to search for the tags "author", "title",
- "hits" or "date",
+ "hits" or "date".
- Examples:
+
Examples:
+author=admin -meta
- Will return all stories by the users "admin" and "badminton_enthusiast" that do not include the "meta" tag.
- +hits>20 -date<=1609459201
- Will return all stories with more than 20 hits that were posted before January 1, 2021 (unix timestamp 1609459201).- While the date field is a little hard to use for humans, it may be useful for robots. +
Will return all stories by the users "admin" and "badminton_enthusiast" that do not include the "meta" tag. +
+hits>20 -date>=1609459201
+ Will return all stories with more than 20 hits that were posted before January 1, 2021 (unix timestamp 1609459201). +
While the date field is a little hard to use for humans, it may be useful for robots.