[3] It features syntax highlighting for a variety of programming and markup languages, as well as view counters for pastes and user profiles.
By October 2011, the site's active pastes numbers exceeded 10 million.
[8] In April 2020, Pastebin.com removed their built-in search feature and restricted their web scraping API, including for paid lifetime subscribers of Pastebin Pro.
[10][11] On October 14, 2020, the terms of service were updated and the mention that contributions were CC BY-SA was removed.
[13] Since 2014, a majority of the pastes on Pastebin.com are hacked accounts or leaked gift cards.