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what is the point of this?

you can’t store any important info if there’s no login unless your links contain the key.

and at that point you might as well just use a login instead maintaining your own list of docs



Access control appears to be a paid feature:

https://www.stashpad.com/pricing

Using the free version for anything sensitive might not be a good idea, especially since I can't find anything about their retention policy or something like terms of service.


The lack of needing an account is a (or the) key feature: one I wish more online services copied. How much better and more frictionless would the web be if we weren’t having to log into an account everywhere we went?


How do I get back to my docs from a second device?


If each doc has a unique URL, then bookmarks? Most browsers already do this. I’d be willing to argue that browsers should make sharing bookmarks from one device to the other easier and account-less, too, but that’s a different rant.


Bookmarks might be fine for technical users, but these days I do not see non-technical users use this feature at all.


Not really. Regular users send links to themselves all the time as a way to bookmark things.


agreed, would be nice als selfhostable service though


> The product is browser first and document history is stored locally, so users can search for docs without querying the server. The company said that while there is no offline support at the moment, it is a feature that the startup will introduce in the future. > > You can easily share these docs for others to look at and collaborate with. However, some of the features like read-only sharing are behind a login.

it took you longer to write that comment than it would've taken to get the answer.


i see no reason to use this product over gsuite when it’s both cheaper, has more functionality, and a data/privacy policy




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