FAQ
An attempt to answer frequently asked questions, and document 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 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 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:The plain parser
The goal of the plain parser is to format plain text exactly as you would expect it. It does not try to to anything fancy and tries to be faithful to the plaintext representation.
Imageboard parser
The imageboard parser delivers an approximation of Infinity markup, and will be familiar to those who have used imageboards before. The imageboard parser supports the following markup:
Surround text with double single-quotes(') to make text italic
Surround text with triple single-quotes to make text bold
Surround text with underscores(_) to make it underlined
Surround text with double asterisks(*) to make it spoilered
Surround text with tildes(~) to make it strike through
Begin a line with a greater-than followed by a space to make it
>greentext
Begin a line with a less-than followed by a space to make it
<pinktext
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 monospaceIf you have incomplete markup at the end, it shouldn't break anything, let me know if it does.
How does search work?
The search utility searches for stories on the site.
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>
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 <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
exact matches. As a quirk of this system, it is
impossible to search for the tags "author", "title",
"hits" or "date".
Examples:
+author=admin -metaWill return all stories by the users "admin" and "badminton_enthusiast" that do not include the "meta" tag.
+hits>20 -date>=1609459201Will 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.