Re:Why the Internet Needs IPFS
by _prometheus on Sunday October 04, 2015 @07:32PM
(#10329236)
(IPFS dev here) Hey! Yeah, we're focusing right now on "distributed static websites" because those are really easy to get right and make work all over the network. However, what's _really_ interesting about IPFS is making completely distributed applications which can do their process unhinged from a single origin -- websites/webapps without an origin server. Posted more about this elsewhere on this thread, take a look: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329221
Also see the Neocities + IPFS blog post: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTVcD87Ecjps6wv9jMaGhvMuzZ2BgP6NyXDcnM...
Take a look also at this talk, which presents different use cases for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skMTdSEaCtA
Can also see some of the random crazy things we're planning in https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/ + https://github.com/ipfs/archives/issues/ + https://github.com/ipfs/apps/issues/
(Edit: fix links)
Are you working with https://unhosted.org/ at all on the unhinged apps concept?
Re:Why the Internet Needs IPFS
by _prometheus on Sunday October 04, 2015 @11:38PM
(#10329862)
not yet, but we should! will email them, thanks for ptr!
Re:Why the Internet Needs IPFS
by venportman on Sunday October 04, 2015 @09:11PM
(#10329505)
For some reason the links in the Neocities blog on IPFS don't work. Is there a working version of the Neocities blog on IPFS?
[Edit: this seems to be a problem with the route names on the Neocities blog, not IPFS itself]
Link to .../ipfs/notes/ appears to contain 37 bytes of nothing. Is the content available elseware? Would love to see the random crazy things you're planning.
Yep sorry, it's in the issue tracker: https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues
Distributed static content is absolutely critical and shouldn't be ignored. Juan's work is excellent. If you are looking for distributed p2p dynamic data sooner though, have a look at (disclosure: I'm the author) https://github.com/amark/gun which already works.
Re:Why the Internet Needs IPFS
by _prometheus on Sunday October 04, 2015 @08:32PM
(#10329394)
Thanks mark! gun is really cool! Would love to talk about it, actually. I'd love to make gun a transport for IPFS objects, and viceversa. send me an email!
Also, IPFS works today too, https://ipfs.io is served directly via IPFS :)
Of course if one doesn't need transactions, everything is easier even today -- I mean, who doesn't use a CDN? It's a very similar concept.
The problem is much tougher when the content is personalized or when there needs to be a transaction.
This makes distribution a huge huge problem no one has solved yet (even a blockchain, IIRC can't really scale up in transactions...)