A Pastebin alternative for text that deserves better

Some pastes are exhaust. Others are the actual thing you meant to say.

# Different tools for different text

Pastebin’s job is containment: a log file, a stack trace, a config blob that needs to stop flooding the chat. For that it remains perfectly adequate — plain text in, plain text out, gone when you’re done.

But somewhere along the way, paste sites became where people put announcements, tutorials, and essays — prose flattened into monospace and wrapped in ads. That text deserved a page.

# The paste is the same, the page is not

The workflow on lucid.page is exactly as heavy as a paste bin: paste, press publish, get a link. What differs is what your reader gets — a typeset page with real fonts, syntax-highlighted code, KaTeX math, and Mermaid diagrams, instead of a wall of preformatted text:

def read_better(text: str) -> str:
    return publish(text)  # typeset, linked, done

# Sensible defaults for sharing

Pages are unlisted by default — reachable by link, indexed nowhere. An expiry date handles the ‘only relevant this week’ case that paste sites taught everyone to want. And the raw Markdown stays at /raw/ for anyone who prefers their text unadorned.

# Common questions

# Is lucid.page good for sharing log files?

Honestly, no — for raw logs and stack traces, a plain paste bin is the right shape. lucid.page is for text meant to be read as a document.

# Can a page expire automatically?

Yes. Set an expiry at publish time and the page takes itself down on schedule.

# Do readers see ads?

No. There are no ads on published pages, and no tracking of readers across pages.