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Improved Paste.ee Support #4575

Open tystuyfzand opened 2 years ago

tystuyfzand commented 2 years ago

Role

I maintain Paste.ee

Suggestion

Improve the Paste.ee Implementation/Support

Benefit

Easy registration of Paste.ee accounts, less accidental uploads

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Currently, when uploading pastes there is no confirmation dialog. Users regularly click "Upload" not knowing that it would be sent to a site on the internet that they have no control over removing it.

There are a few ways to simplify and improve the Paste.ee experience with this.

Adding a confirmation dialog to ensure users are aware that uploading the log sends it to a site would be good, just to reduce the amount of "I wasn't sure what this did"

Along with that, there are regular questions on how to link your own account, I think it'd be a pretty cool idea to use either the authorization page (which takes the guess work out of doing it yourself and is just a link), or the login endpoint (which would require a popup for username/password, or even a registration embedded site?)

Authorization page, which gives the user a token to put in/use:

https://paste.ee/account/api/authorize/APPLICATION_KEY

Login endpoint:

https://docs.paste.ee/#user-authentication

phit commented 2 years ago

why would you need confirmation for a button that clearly says upload? it's not like you upload any sensitive information either

as for the log api key, i don't think the average user cares, at least i don't recall anyone ever asking about it, something like that would probably be better served in the wiki

tystuyfzand commented 2 years ago

You'd be surprised honestly. People think "Oh I wonder what this button does" and then click it, only to upload the log file instantly. Sadly, while I agree that it's not sensitive information others may think it is - it's the source of at least 3-4 reports a month. The only thing I've seen has been computer usernames being a full name/similar (which could be solved by just censoring the account name in the output? But not necessary)

As for the login link, true. It's a very simple "Hey, use this link if you want to attach uploads to your account" which could be beneficial for users, considering the authorize page is a thing and just gives them a token.

xcfrg commented 2 years ago

Confirmation has been added in #4816, hopefully this makes your life a bit easier :)

This issue should not be closed until the documentation issues have been addressed