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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by idlewords on Sunday October 23, 2016 @04:27AM (#12772587)
I'm not trying to pee all over IPFS. But it's also the case that it's easier to throw out mature, crufty old systems and start afresh. Every programmer knows this temptation.

We've had the web for twenty years now, and are just beginning to understand what it is and how it changes the world. If you're suggesting using IPFS (or any other system) as a way to expand and grow the web, I'm with you. But replacing the web means throwing out a lot of hard-won experience and intuition, in favor of a system that's bound to have its own issues down the line.

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by raarts on Sunday October 23, 2016 @05:18AM (#12772705)
This line of reasoning can be applied to ANY change.

Also HTTP isn't going away.

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by rer on Sunday October 23, 2016 @09:57PM (#12776374)
Why isn't HTTP going away?
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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by inimino on Monday October 24, 2016 @06:24AM (#12777735)
Because there's a lot of it.
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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by rer on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:54AM (#12778301)
Would it go away if there was less of it?

Can you imagine ways there could be less of it?

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by inimino on Monday October 24, 2016 @12:26PM (#12780274)
If there was something dramatically better for every use case (which is not IPFS) it would slowly displace HTTP in new deployments and there would still be HTTP for a very, very long time. The Web we have, in other words, isn't going anywhere.
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