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Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by StavrosK »

bmcusick wrote: post #23
StavrosK wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's personal preference, some people will prefer Beaker, we personally liked the "drag some files to a folder and that's it" UX. By the way, I'll mention this here because it isn't evident on the Hearth page right now: You can get your own username on Eternum for free, and it will redirect to the latest hash that Hearth publishes (i.e. the latest version of your website) automatically. You can do this even if you do…

That website gave me a good chuckle. Was that your actual website from back when, or did you just "take inspiration" from the old days?

Haha, no, I just made that yesterday as a quick test of the redirection functionality (it uses bootstrap), although I did also find my actual old website from when I was 16:

https://anonymoussoftware.stavros.io/

Ahh, iframes and tables, so cutting edge :)

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by Sephr »

Peerweb¹ will be much more user-accessible since it works with normal browsers and retains your current URL structure (even for user-generated content). Additionally, our optional resource sharing permission manager app (which supports Windows, macOS, and Linux) enables fully decentralized websites with far superior performance than IPFS.

ETA later this year

1. https://peerweb.net

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by edjroot »

marknadal wrote: post #21
jaboutboul wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or BlockStack[0] even [0]( https://blockstack.org )

Or add realtime updates to IPFS, Beaker, or Blockstack using a P2P/decentralized Firebase: https://github.com/amark/gun IPFS + Firebase = Lovechild ^

I remember having read about Gun a few years ago [1] and there was a lot of (apparently) valid criticism. Do you know how much of that is still valid today?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9076558

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by swsieber »

Sephr wrote: post #32

Peerweb¹ will be much more user-accessible since it works with normal browsers and retains your current URL structure (even for user-generated content). Additionally, our optional resource sharing permission manager app (which supports Windows, macOS, and Linux) enables fully decentralized websites with far superior performance than IPFS. ETA later this year 1. https://peerweb.net

Please elucidate the timing.

Your link redirects to twitter, and I can't find anything about it following links to the https://oswg.oftn.org/ or on your own website. So it looks completely non-existent, which makes me skeptical of "soon"

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by jondashkyle »

tomcooks wrote: post #2

Why not use Beaker[0] and achieve the same thing, but on linux and windows too? It has a great community too [0]( http://beakerbrowser.com/ )

I spent several years at Cargo Collective (https://cargocollective.com), a publishing platform for designers, musicians, architects, etc… Pre-SquareSpace, Wix, all that… Days away from releasing the public beta of Enoki, an experimental publishing tool for the peer-to-peer web. Currently running inside Beaker Browser and built on Dat.

Beta registration was opened last week, although it is still trying to fly a bit below the radar :)

https://enoki.site

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by Sephr »

swsieber wrote: post #34
Sephr wrote: post #32

Peerweb¹ will be much more user-accessible since it works with normal browsers and retains your current URL structure (even for user-generated content). Additionally, our optional resource sharing permission manager app (which supports Windows, macOS, and Linux) enables fully decentralized websites with far superior performance than IPFS. ETA later this year 1. https://peerweb.net

Please elucidate the timing. Your link redirects to twitter, and I can't find anything about it following links to the https://oswg.oftn.org/ or on your own website. So it looks completely non-existent, which makes me skeptical of "soon"

It's described in the first tweet on that twitter link. It will be out this year.

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

bmcusick wrote: post #4

Fantastic. The web falling into the AmaGooBookSoft silos has been convenient, but it hasn't been good for censorship or personal sovereignty. Making it push-button easy to publish to IPFS a great way to return editorial control and ownership to individuals, without the downsides of needing to run and maintain servers. I hope Hearth or someone like them expands beyond websites to self-publishing of store front ends, c…

>but it hasn't been good for censorship or personal sovereignty.

On this subject—

I'm going to be that guy this time because I haven't yet seen a good solution to the problem, and I ask with sincerity:

What happens when somebody decides they're going to start an illicit website/content of some kind? (let's avoid semantics because I'd rather not go down that path)

Everybody then has a forced part in hosting it, and there are just some subjects that do not have any redeeming aspects.

Is there a resolution built in for those scenarios?

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

#38

Post by prophesi »

tomcooks wrote: post #2

Why not use Beaker[0] and achieve the same thing, but on linux and windows too? It has a great community too [0]( http://beakerbrowser.com/ )

Fun fact: Beaker used to support IPFS[0] and the IPFS creator used to work with the Dat project[1].

[0]https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/480#issuecomm...

[1]https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/119#issuecomment-21827839...

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by sprice »

Can this be used for simple IPFS file hosting with pinned files?

I'm building a small web app and want to use IPFS for image storage. In testing I was able to create the files but after a few months of not running the IPFS daemon the images are lost as they are no longer pinned.

Edit: Just saw https://www.eternum.io/ in other comments. Perfect!

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by StavrosK »

sprice wrote: post #39

Can this be used for simple IPFS file hosting with pinned files? I'm building a small web app and want to use IPFS for image storage. In testing I was able to create the files but after a few months of not running the IPFS daemon the images are lost as they are no longer pinned. Edit: Just saw https://www.eternum.io/ in other comments. Perfect!

To answer your question, yes, it can. Just put the files in there, it'll pin them.
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