Sites similar to Pastebin

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These sites can further edit created pastes.

1. Codepad.org. http://codepad.org. Can also run code. Syntax highlighting for: C, C++, D, Haskell, Lua, OCaml, PHP, Perl, Plain text, Python, Ruby, Scheme, TCL.
2. Freetexthost. http://freetexthost.com/. Anonymous text paste service. No user account, so don't lose your paste links. Each paste limited to 50,000 bytes/characters. But it can link QR code to each of your pastes. Supports BBCode and can make links clickable. Sep 2019: they have been suspended.
3. Friendpaste. http://friendpaste.com/. One of the very old pasting service that has clean an intuitive user interface, choice of color scheme for source code, selection of preferred language, possibility to edit pastes, support for a large number of syntaxes, persistent pastes, difference between paste, instant reviews and more. No way to expire pastes, but you can edit them. This also saves older revisions but max revisions saved is unknown.
4. Gitbook. Has chapters, has versions, free. http://gitbook.com. You can upload local images only, you cannot link to images in an URL. Does not support markdown. You can create releases of documents or books or readme files. You can share files and it appears to have a page counter. You can have teams comment on paragraphs. You can export your "workspace" as a zip file. Go to Settings icon, Danger Zone, Export Content. To create a shareable link requires you to move to an organization, which might cost money.
5. Ideone. http://ideone.com. Like an online mini IDE and debugging tool.
6. IP.fi. http://p.ip.fi/. Copy link from browser address bar, but no user accounts, so you can't find your pastes if you lose the link. You cannot edit pastes.
7. Controlc. https://controlc.com/. Have you ever wanted to send an article or long conversation over IM or post to Twitter, only to have it be over the character limit? That’s what this site is for. You can set a password on each paste to only some people to view it. It has a user account (optional). There is no expiration on a paste.
8. Pastelink. http://pastelink.net. Anonymous, no login required.
9. Snipplr. http://snipplr.com/. Mostly for code snippets. Has free account which can (I presume) list all your pastes. Snippets are listed by language, including PHP, CSS, Javascript, HTML, more.
10. Taskade. Supports some basic markdown, but the purpose here is to make a bulleted TODO list with a checkbox to the left of each bullet. When the checkbox is checked, the item's font uses strikethrough. Supports bold, italic, underline, highlight. http://taskade.com

With Markdown support

1. Cryptbin. http://cryptbin.com. Syntax highlighting for 70 languages and Markdown, emoji, and more. Pastes also allow image attachments. Allows user account. Set pastes to self-destruct the first time it's opened, or after N minutes, hours or days. Has free account.
2. Dillinger.io. http://dillinger.io. Save files on: Dropbox, Bitbucket, Github, Medium, Google drive, Microsoft One Drive. Import HTML file and it gets converted to Markdown, so you can edit the Markdown. Drag and drop images (requires your Dropbox account be linked). Import and save files from GitHub, Dropbox, Google Drive and One Drive. Drag and drop markdown and HTML files into Dillinger. Export documents as Markdown, HTML and PDF. Dillinger does not do image captions at all.
3. Ghost. Their plans cost money but you can install this open source project yourself for free. https://ghost.org/docs/. Supports markdown. This is mainly for blogging.
4. Gist. http://gist.github.com. All pastes are repositories so they are forkable and versioned. Requires username. Markdown supported. Images supported? Yes but image captions are not supported. Window cannot be made too small, there's a minimum width for the window.
5. Markdown editor. Saves to local files only. No TOC. Preview on right side, it does wrap content from previous line though. http://jbt.github.io/markdown-editor/. Allows images from an URL, supports bold, italic, bulleted lists, headers. You can toggle from edit mode to reading mode. Formatting is on the fly. It can save documents in your browser somewhere (experimental). You can also download docs. Has spell check.
6. Markdown Dingus, the original from John Gruber. Practice writing in markdown, it's easy! Then you click the "convert" button to convert markdown to HTML. https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus
7. Minimalist Markdown Editor. It can show HTML or preview of the HTML. It has a quick ref window, and can change the text size. http://markdown.pioul.fr/
8. Pastebin.com. https://pastebin.com. Markdown support for pro account but no auto TOC.
9. Stackedit.io. https://stackedit.io. Live preview with scroll sync, rich markdown editor also supports tables it appears, supports checkoff todo list items, you can create folders and new documents, supports strikethrough, comments for each document. This will not rewrap consecutive lines in a paragraph, can store files and publish markdown files to Dropbox. No automatic TOC. You can "publish" to Blogger, Dropbox, Github, Gitlab, Google Drive, Wordpress, Zendesk.
   GitHub Flavored Markdown, StackEdit supports different Markdown flavors such as Markdown Extra, GFM and CommonMark. Each Markdown feature can be enabled or disabled at your convenience. "Synchronize" means save your markdown file on the storage service you hooked to Stackedit. "Publish" means convert your markdown to HTML and store on your storage service on the cloud.

These paste sites cannot edit existing pastes.

1. Dpaste. http://dpaste.com/. Since 2006. You don't register here but you assign a nickname/email on each paste, and that's how you can group pastes together like a folder. Nickname/email is optional. Then when you click the "Yours" button, you enter the nickname/email you entered and all those pastes which have the nickname/email are listed. So it's mostly anonymous. Once paste is created, there is no way to edit old pastes.
2. Hastebin. http://hastebin.com. No user account allowed, that means don't lose your links. You cannot edit existing pastes but you can duplicate them and edit the duplicate. But once you hit Save you cannot edit them.
3. Ncry.pt. http://ncry.pt/. Pastebin storage but it encrypts your data before it's sent to the site. I didn't see a way to list all your files, so once you lose the link, there's no way to find out what it is. Totally anonymous. No username allowed, so don't lose your links! You also can't edit existing pastes.
4. Paste.ee. http://paste.ee. Supports many text types including Markdown. You can create different sections as tabs, and each section can have it's own text type. Has expiration based on age of paste, or views, unregistered users have max 1mb of paste size. Registered users get max 6mb per paste, encryption is optional. But you cannot edit your paste when done.
5. Slexy. http://www.slexy.org. Supports many languages for highlighting but not Markdown. Has fields for title, author, expiration age (even down to hours). When you click "reply", you can edit the paste but the URL changes each time.
6. http://www.zerobin.com. Write your paste then encrypt and send it. Has syntax highlighting. You can also have it deleted after it's read once, or keep it for open discussion. No way to edit existing paste.

Link sharing

1. https://sharethis.com
2. http://tiny.cc. Has a free option. Create a shortcut and if the link changes, the shortcut remains the same.

Web pages

1. Pages at Github. Uses Github Markdown. https://pages.github.com/. Initial page must be index.html. If you write another page in markdown then click on a link to testpage.md, Github will not render the page in html and you will be asked to download the .md file.
   1. Aug 2019: Github bought by Microsoft.

File sharing

Anon file sharing

1. https://anonfile.com/. Pay service.

Links

• 28 alternatives to Pastebin. http://techpctricks.com/pastebin-alternatives/
• Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/pastebin/new/. This seems pretty dead.

Create online books/documentation

Free sites

See https://pastebin.com/RadNDWbZ.

Free wikis

1. Miraheze. http://miraheze.org

Paid sites

1. Leanpub.com. Costs $100 to start a book, but it's a good site to sell books on. Show only certain chapters of your book for a preview. Very easy to use, supports Markdown, creates EPUB, PDF, and online versions of your book. Supports versions so you can work on one version and readers can read the "published" version. http://leanpub.com
2. Zoho. https://www.zoho.com/writer/

These tools create only a single page of documentation.