Canonical Is Shutting Down Ubuntu Pastebin (nerds.xyz) 8
"Canonical says Ubuntu Pastebin will be decommissioned at the end of May 2026," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, "as part of an infrastructure modernization effort."
The announcement only appeared this week, giving the Linux community barely any warning before a service that has been tied to Ubuntu support culture for years suddenly disappears.
Ubuntu Pastebin has long been used for sharing logs, crash reports, config files, and terminal output across IRC, Ask Ubuntu, forums, bug reports, Reddit, and countless troubleshooting guides scattered around the internet. The bigger concern is link rot. Once the shutdown happens, years of old support discussions could lose critical debugging information overnight. Community members have already pointed out that some Ubuntu packages and scripts still reference paste.ubuntu.com directly.
While it is understandable that aging services eventually get retired, the extremely short transition period is rubbing many Linux users the wrong way, especially in a community where old documentation and archived troubleshooting threads still regularly help people solve problems a decade later.
Ubuntu Pastebin has long been used for sharing logs, crash reports, config files, and terminal output across IRC, Ask Ubuntu, forums, bug reports, Reddit, and countless troubleshooting guides scattered around the internet. The bigger concern is link rot. Once the shutdown happens, years of old support discussions could lose critical debugging information overnight. Community members have already pointed out that some Ubuntu packages and scripts still reference paste.ubuntu.com directly.
While it is understandable that aging services eventually get retired, the extremely short transition period is rubbing many Linux users the wrong way, especially in a community where old documentation and archived troubleshooting threads still regularly help people solve problems a decade later.
Responsible action (Score:3)
Canonical should pay the Internet Archive to keep a read only copy available.
Their AI assistant was trained on it ... (Score:1)
They should leave it running read-only (Score:3)
Seems very redundant (Score:2)
I mean, aren't there plenty [pastes.io] of [privatebin.info] sites [github.com] which [jsfiddle.net] offer [ideone.com] pretty [pastebin.com] much [justpaste.app] the [tailscale.com] same [hastebin.com] thing [rentry.co]?
New admins (Score:4, Interesting)
The new admins don't know how to maintain a simple file server anymore.
They can vibe code something else to use the power though.
Remember the cloud is "somebody else's computer" (Score:2)
It was a mistake to depend on the generosity and goodwill of companies for the long term.
Don't get me wrong. Ubuntu used to be awesome. They had a mission, and they believed in it. They even were distributing free Linux CD-ROMs when I was in college. They had it all together.
But now they are just another corporate entity, and "pastebin" is a service with no revenue potential. I'm surprised it survived so long.
The replacement? Github Gists? A peer to peer system?
There are of course "alternatives", but I'm no
Not good, but good to know. (Score:5, Interesting)
And funny that this coincides with my starting to move my servers from Ubuntu Server to Debian. I don't want to trust a company that, on May 22, announces the shutdown of a service on May 31 that was supposed to store data for up to one year (guaranteed or not)...
Think of the cost! (Score:2)
This is probably costing Canonical $42B/year to keep operating. Better to put their resources on other options, such as putting more packages into snaps.