[HN Gopher] Drift. A self-hostable open-source Gist clone
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       Drift. A self-hostable open-source Gist clone
        
       Author : sebastianconcpt
       Score  : 102 points
       Date   : 2022-03-29 12:50 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | crecker wrote:
       | Wished to have it with Golang! One binary to build and deploy to
       | all my clients websites. There are a lot of people that want
       | their self hosted Gist clone just to keep the notes internally.
        
       | wsatb wrote:
       | Feature request: ephemeral drifts. This is a major missing
       | feature of gist in my opinion.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | nodesocket wrote:
         | Yes, the ability to set an expiration time on a drift would be
         | huge.
        
           | emilyst wrote:
           | This seems like a neat idea! I like it too.
        
       | chrisweekly wrote:
       | Naming things is hard. Drift is already a few other things
       | including a popular website contact widget company.
        
         | chockchocschoir wrote:
         | Naming things is indeed hard, using multiple keywords for
         | searching is not (both Google and DuckDuckGo supports this).
         | "Drift pastebin" turns up two hits that would lead me to this
         | project. This HN submission will make the repository score even
         | better for those keywords, so expect it to be even easier to
         | find in a day or two.
        
         | MaxLeiter wrote:
         | But now you can say "catch my drift"
         | 
         | (more seriously, it's also a synonym of Gist, see
         | https://twitter.com/emilyst/status/1499860458207014912 for the
         | origin)
        
         | nanomonkey wrote:
         | I was expecting Uber for drift cars...like a gig economy for
         | get-away vehicles and fast rides.
        
       | codetrotter wrote:
       | Can you git clone and git push a drift same way you can git clone
       | and git push a gist?
        
         | MaxLeiter wrote:
         | no, but once API tokens are implemented (probably this week)
         | you'll be able to write up scripts that can do similar. I
         | definitely plan to have a VSCode extension for sharing files /
         | snippets.
        
         | zokier wrote:
         | This. Git integration is the major differentiating feature of
         | gist from all other pastebins.
        
           | petepete wrote:
           | I've used gists since the beginning and didn't even realise
           | you could treat it like a git repo.
        
           | c0balt wrote:
           | While a lot heavier but also good, GitLab CE/ EE have
           | "snippets", basically gists, that are backed by git
           | repositories. Same UI as GitHub gists, same comment/
           | visibility/ share system.
        
           | emilyst wrote:
           | There are plenty of other systems to do this with. Gist's
           | value proposition seems orthogonal to its Git integration--
           | more to do with its UX.
        
       | KindAndFriendly wrote:
       | Hi Max,
       | 
       | Great effort! Minor feedback:
       | 
       | - When I click on the "+ New" icon on the left, I would expect to
       | be able to create a new text snippet. But I'm stuck on the
       | "Welcome to Drift" page (I'm on Safari). - When I click "Add A
       | File" I get another entire instance of the editing window.
        
         | MaxLeiter wrote:
         | Fixed, thanks!
        
       | kerblang wrote:
       | > Internal Server Error
       | 
       | Boo
        
         | nextaccountic wrote:
         | It's pretty normal for a website to go down when hitting HN
         | frontpage. But here it seems up
        
           | kerblang wrote:
           | It's up but whenever I try to make a page it internal-server-
           | errors me.
           | 
           | I'm not unappreciative I was just hoping maybe the author
           | would say, hey I saw your booboo in my log and fixed it for
           | you or something.
           | 
           | Instead cometh the downvote army... also, boo.
        
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