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[bviecelli]

Add support to send formatted code to the group through services like Etherpad, GitHub's Gist, and so on, or a link to formatted code files.

[bviecelli]

Etherpad seems nice. We can put the service online on the same server that the bot is running, so we are responsible for the data. But this will generate traffic and space requirements for the server.

[bmeneg]

@bviecelli people in my daily-job use Etherpad and TBH I don't really like it hahaha. Actually their purpose are different, Etherpad is basically a "collaborative editing tool" and not a snippet one where Gist would fit much better due to its features related to source code presentation: source highlight, annotation, comments, ... so I really tends for Gist against any other Pastebin-like tool.

And the point about to maintain our own instance of the service IMHO we didn't need to care about being public or not.. well at least not today, since we won't share secrets around. If we plan to do something private in the future the plugin could connect through an API to the service hosted in our private server.. but for now... a public one + history feature (the one mentioned on #1) would be much easier.