dpaste
Simple pastebin with multiple text and code option, with short url result easy to remember.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Oct 2026.
Also an alternative to Pastebin.
At a glance
dpaste quick facts
- Health score
- 31/100 STALE
- Stars
- 643
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v3.8, Nov 2023
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to dpaste
Full rankings: Pastebin alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "dpaste is a pastebin application written in Python using the Django framework. You can find a live installation on dpaste.org."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
dpaste scores 31/100, #23 of 25 in Pastebins: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v3.8, 3 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 643 stars add 11.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
v3.8 released 3 years ago
- Stars 11.2 / 20
643 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 1
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #23 of 25 tools in Pastebins by health , between lesma (#22) and SnyPy (#24) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Docker, Python |
| Latest release | v3.8 · 3 years ago |
| Stars | 643 |
| Open issues | 3 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | DarrenOfficial/dpaste ↗ |
dpaste vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with dpaste (Pastebins), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ByteStash | 94 | 2.6k | GPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| Wastebin | 92 | 881 | MIT | 10 days ago |
| paaster | 91 | 568 | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| Opengist | 87 | 3.4k | AGPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| PrivateBin | 86 | 8.7k | Zlib | yesterday |
| dpaste (this tool) | 31 | 643 | MIT | yesterday |
dpaste: common questions
What does dpaste replace?
Repoly lists dpaste as an open-source alternative to Pastebin. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where dpaste stands against the others.
Is dpaste still maintained?
dpaste had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v3.8, is from 3 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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