Public feed pastes must be readable text

What happened

A paste cannot go on the public feed when it is encrypted or restricted.

Why it might have happened

• The public feed is for plain text that anyone can open.
• Secret-link and recipient-only pastes are intentionally not public feed items.

What you can try

1. Turn off encryption or recipient delivery if the paste should be public.
2. Or keep encryption on and choose Unlisted instead.
3. Publish again after choosing one path.

Related error help

• public_access_requires_plaintext — Public access must be plain text
• feed_requires_unlimited_reads — Public feed pastes cannot burn after reads

Get help

If the error keeps happening, send feedback or contact us and include feed_requires_public_plaintext plus what you were trying to do.

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