Pasted snippets show a bunch of code and are not very attractive - needs a placeholder

[ajvsol]

Steps to reproduce

What happens

Sending the link for a paste via apps like Slack results in a bunch of code being displayed

What should happen

Perhaps some placeholder text as the paste was password-protected, also needs a thumbnail image

Additional information

Screenshot http://i.imgur.com/fRXVsfL.png

• I can reproduce this issue on https://privatebin.net: Yes

[rugk]

Your screenshot is from slack or so?

I think to solve this issue we could implement Twitter cards including some text explanation.

[elrido]

Do we maybe need an og:description meta tag to avoid this?

[paulcmal]

Both og: and twitter: tags are needed, depending on what service the link gets posted on. As for libre metadata, there's microformats2.

I have a problem with sharing links to a Privatebin on social media, because:

• The service transporting the URL has access to the decryption key (in the URL itself)
• If there is a default template for links to Privatebin, it will be easy to get lost in identically-looking links

Here's a few ideas to address both issues:

• add an optional "title" field for new pastes ; if empty, the title could default to "Encrypted note on PrivateBin"
• add a summary explicitely discouraging sharing encrypted pastes on social media, such as "This content is encrypted, but giving the URL to any one/service means they get access to the encrypted content as well."
• add an identicon of sorts for each paste, using the pad name as an input, for easier retrieval in a feed

Specifically regarding the microformats2 implementation, the closest post-type there is to a paste at the moment is a note, that is a bunch of text, optionally with a title, a date, an author, a picture... If an optional title is indeed added to pastes, then it's more of an article.

[rugk]

The sharing issue is already documented in the FAQ: https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/wiki/FAQ#if-i-use-privatebin-and-post-the-link-in-a-forum-in-social-media-etc-is-my-content-secure