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Open SoniEx2 opened this issue 10 years ago • 8 comments

Idk I think it'll be a nice feature. It's for comments ofc.

SoniEx2 avatar Oct 19 '14 15:10 SoniEx2

~~Some kind of optional email notifications could also be nice. They wouldn't necressarily have to contain the comment, information about new comment would be enough.~~

(See the following comment.)

Mikaela avatar Oct 19 '14 15:10 Mikaela

RSS could be nice on comments, indeed. About email: I hate that idea. Zerobin was made so that the server has no knowledge of the stored data. Sending emails is not enabled on every server and leaves logs. If one of the target emails is not self-hosted (Gmail, Hotmail, ...) the company or a government would have access to the discussion, thus compromising the anonymity of the discussion and of the Zerobin instance.

pVesian avatar Oct 22 '14 18:10 pVesian

@pVesian not necessarily true, though I am not a fan of the idea of email notifications. It could be possible to send participants a notification that there is an update to the discussion, without sending the actual comment that was added. It is also up to the administrator of the server how the email will be delivered. It could make an SMTP connection out to a mailserver, which wouldn't be too bad. It's just more trouble than it's worth, but it wouldn't necessarily compromise security.

exec avatar Oct 29 '14 19:10 exec

RSS :+1:

Mail (Notifications) :-1:

A Pastebin shouldn't deal with storing user data or logins imo.

carstenhag avatar Oct 29 '14 19:10 carstenhag

It could be possible to send participants a notification that there is an update to the discussion, without sending the actual comment that was added.

but it would probably send the link to the paste including the encryption key.

Mikaela avatar Oct 29 '14 20:10 Mikaela

@Mkaysi depends how it's done, could potentially only include an identifier and expect the recipient to have the link saved.

bey avatar Oct 30 '14 23:10 bey

How would it be able to send the encryption key since the webserver doesn't have it? Unless you want to implement sending emails in javascript... (ick)

Dealing with storing and verifying email addresses probably isn't worth it. Better to provide some API hooks, and users who want email can set up a mailing list server and use them to trigger sending update messages. Keeps it tidier that way.

tlhonmey avatar Feb 20 '15 18:02 tlhonmey

Even better, you could include title support and optional passwords. This way if the paste is intended to be private, the e-mail notification will not be able to ruin that for you.

I would be interested in adding this to my zerobin fork, if it wouldn't require me to stop being lazy.

exec avatar May 12 '15 02:05 exec