It'd be cool if you could have your own instance of DrupalBin, i.e. on your own site. This way, you also keep control of your own content. But you'd still want this snippet to be searchable/accessible by others from a central location.
Hence "federated pastes".
1) You register at DrupalBin and get an API key that is associated with your account.
2) You download and install the DrupalBin module at your own site. E.g. http://wimleers.com/snippets.
3) You post your snippets to your own site.
4) Depending on some settings (sync all? sync only if a certain tag is set? sync only if a certain language?) or a manual action, the snippet would be synced to a central site (which would be configurable, but default to drupalbin.com).
Note: it'd be better if "your own DrupalBin" would not mean another site (possibly in a multisite setup), but just a set of modules to install and enable in your existing site. But maybe this is not very feasible. Anyway, this is just a detail.
Thoughts? Some might find this useless. It just crossed my mind and I thought I'd write it down.
Comments
Comment #1
robloachDefinitely, would another way of thinking of it be like http://wimleers.pastebin.com/ where it gives you posts unique to "wimleers", except running from your own domain? Would be great to get namespaced pasting going...
Comment #2
wim leersExactly. And you could run either http://wimleers.com/snippets or http://snippets.wimleers.com of course.
If we want to go really advanced – but this would require a lot of set up – we could work with CNAMEs in the latter case, like CDNs and Google Apps do. But that's out-of-scope IMO.
Comment #3
robloachhttp://dc2009.drupalcon.org/node/2020 :-)
Comment #4
wim leersComment #5
robloachMaybe something like Organic Groups or Domain Access would help here?