Welcome to Drift

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Drift is a self-hostable clone of GitHub Gist.

It is a simple way to share code and text snippets with your friends, with support for the following:

  • Render GitHub Extended Markdown (including images)
  • User authentication
  • Private, public, and secret posts

If you want to signup, you can join at /signup as long as you have a passcode provided by the administrator (which you don't need for this demo). This demo is on a memory-only database, so accounts and pastes can be deleted at any time. You can find the source code on GitHub.

Drift was inspired by this tweet:

What is the absolute closest thing to GitHub Gist that can be self-hosted? In terms of design and functionality. Hosts images and markdown, rendered. Creates links that can be private or public. Uses/requires registration. I have looked at dozens of pastebin-like things.