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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by StavrosK on Friday March 02, 2018 @06:59PM (#16506857)
I wasn't going to post this yet, but fuck it: I miss that era too, and I wanted to make it easier for people to publish their websites, so I made this with a friend:

https://hearth.eternum.io/

It gives you a folder, like Dropbox. Drop some files in, and you have your own website (over IPFS). It's still early, but it should work well enough. I'd love to hear some feedback, if anyone tries it.

Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by shakna on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:39PM (#16507032)
It looks great, but there is one question out of the box for me...

What about updating the site?

With IPFS this means a completely new hash unless you're running under (through?) IPNS, to point a domain at a new hash. If it's a new hash every time, you give up quickly because you don't want to propagate a new hash to any potential users every time (in the general case).

Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by Hydraulix989 on Friday March 02, 2018 @08:40PM (#16507320)
Maybe they can track the hashes and give us subdomains that redirect to the latest update?
Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by StavrosK on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:38PM (#16518313)
By the way, I've added that feature now:

https://www.eternum.io/api/docs/#!/api/site_update

Hearth will ask for your Eternum API key and will automatically update your URL to point to your latest hash. Like so:

https://www.eternum.io/user/stavros/

Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by StavrosK on Saturday March 03, 2018 @05:07AM (#16508659)
That's exactly what we're planning on doing, we're going to add something like "username.eternum.io" or similar.
Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by amelius on Saturday March 03, 2018 @02:51AM (#16508384)
Why not full domain names?
Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by jypepin on Saturday March 03, 2018 @02:54AM (#16508393)
ah that's very nice. I started building a "blogchain", which is a decentralized blogging platform, to learn how to use ethereum. probably won't release anything as I learnt what I wanted, but it's nice to see some other projects like that. congrats :)
Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by stevekemp on Saturday March 03, 2018 @05:26AM (#16508696)
Make it really retro - instead of a blogchain you'll need to make it a webring!
Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by xena on Saturday March 03, 2018 @07:37AM (#16509024)
I'd be interested to see the code for it, I've been thinking about making a decentralized blogging platform that uses a unique chain for each user and would love to see someone else's take on it.
Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by omg_ketchup on Saturday March 03, 2018 @01:02PM (#16510557)
Upvote just for the term Blogchain.
Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by indigodaddy on Friday March 02, 2018 @10:07PM (#16507623)
Any sample sites that are based on/use hearth? Is it like a normal http(s) protocol/type URL?
Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by StavrosK on Saturday March 03, 2018 @05:10AM (#16508665)
Yes, you can access it both over https (through the Eternum gateway) and through IPFS. Here's my personal site:

https://www.eternum.io/ipfs/QmRCWYEYU2WvLJBbj54k5p1AFHZ2TefW...

Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by diimdeep on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:48AM (#16509748)
Everyone is telling us they only platform we ever need, and at same time they all closed platform with their own API and without open protocols like RSS(dead for every big company).

There are only 214 million active sites and this number stop growing[1] In contrast there are 2 billion active FB user pages, and 65 million FB business pages and growing.[2]

[1] https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/969544747374260224/ph...

[2] https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/facebook-page-statis...

Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by StavrosK on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:55AM (#16509783)
What's the relevance of your comment to mine?