The Ubuntu Pastebin server will be shutdown at the end of May 2026.
Just 8 days warning!
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Yeah that’s barely any notice for something a lot of people lean on.
No official replacement named, but there are options, dpaste, paste.debian.net, or termbin.com from the terminal (nc termbin.com 9999).
For sharing logs and configs here, a Markdown code block or attachment works fine.
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I’ve never used that! Didn’t know it existed.
Just created a test file, and can’t seem to figure out how to share the contents.
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examples:
ls | nc termbin.com 9999 it will give you a url, open it, you see the ls output
user@cw:~$ ls | nc termbin.com 9999
https://termbin.com/5rmt
user@cw:~$
cat testfile | nc termbin.com 9999
open the url, you will see the text of that file.
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I used the form provided on the site, submitted a test file, it showed the file indexed as 1, but there is no URL associated with the item posted thru that web page form.
I also don’t see any way to list it after leaving that page and going back to it!!!
So, for me, as a service, that’s a definite FAIL!
For the terminal-based approach, that is fantastic!
I learned something new today. Thank you, Pavlos!
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Nice @pavlos exactly. Also, you can set an alias like alias tb="nc termbin.com 9999" in your bashrc so it’s just tb after that.
Paste services like these face almost nothing but AI botnet spam these days, and increasingly so with more than 50% internet traffic being automated. For tech services like these its probably closer to 80%. 
I wouldn’t be surprised if Ubuntu is finding it challenging to keep up. Serious WAF and other traffic filtering are required now, and rapidly evolving.
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