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Re:Dweb: Building a Resilient Web with WebTorrent by StavrosK on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:28PM (#17863066)
But the problem with Web Torrent is that the seeds go away when you close the tab, whereas with IPFS the page keeps getting seeded.
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Re:Dweb: Building a Resilient Web with WebTorrent by vishnu_ks on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:04AM (#17866287)
It is also the advantage of webtorrent. All a person need to seed a file in webtorrent is open a browser window. You can't rely on users of your application to start an IPFS server and seed the files.

If you want to seed a file for long term you can use the webtorrent-cli or webtorrent app as well.

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Re:Dweb: Building a Resilient Web with WebTorrent by diegorbaquero on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @12:46AM (#17865709)
You can use webseeds so it works even when there are no peers
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