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Comment by kingkilr | Hacker News Reader

I don't care how elegant everyone seems to find this, it took me more than 0 seconds to figure out how to use, I'm sticking to http://paste.pocoo.org/

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I'd say 80% of the ease of use of Hastebin is in the URL. ;) I'm going to remember it, probably whether I want to or not.

If I install the gem I only have to remember a five-character verb, and it's a fun verb.

"Pocoo" isn't even a word in my language, I have to remember a subdomain, and "pocoo.com" forwards to a random Chinese (?) e-commerce site that appears to sell tchotchkes.

From pocoo.org:

The name “Pocoo” bears no meaning and multiple tries to find a suitable Backronym failed. It originally was chosen because it sounded “cute” and is now also the name of our logo owl. Pocoo is pronounced /ˈpokʉː/

It looks like a terminal/repl to me.

First I tried ls, then I tried to type in some lisp code.

It did not work! ;-) /s

This is pretty easy to use. But I don't think the issue with pastebin clones is ease of use.

With all those language, it didn't even have a proper Lisp! Big minus points for that. (It did have Scheme though, but that doesn't have the word "Lisp" in its name.)

+1, at least basic info of what it is, its uniqueness and how to use is missing.

http://hastebin.com/about.md

Elegance is the point! Okay, so you spend a minute reading the usage page. Big deal. Learn it once and you're done. Plus you get an awesome Ruby Gem for pasting from the terminal! Definitely worth the 10 seconds it takes to figure out.

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