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Re: Show HN: I built a peer-to-peer publishing platform

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Post by vishnu_ks »

colatkinson wrote: post #18

This is pretty nifty! Out of curiosity, why did you choose WebTorrent over, say, IPFS? I considered doing something similar using their JavaScript client[0]. [0]: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs

Interesting question. I was also considering to use IPFS js while developing Peerdium. But it seems like it's not fully ready yet. For example, take a look at this

> DHT (automatic content discovery) and Circuit Relay (pierce through NATs and dial between any node in the network) are two fundamental pieces that are not finalized yet.

Another reason was that I had to still run an IPFS node if articles should be made available for more than 8 hours. I didn't want to do anything with storing articles.

Re: Show HN: I built a peer-to-peer publishing platform

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Post by vishnu_ks »

harigov wrote: post #5

Good idea. If there were some way to store that data in a more permanent form, that would have been awesome. Either way, a small nit. > Peerdium would not have been possible with WebTorrent, QuillJs and Vue.js I think you meant "Peerdium would not have been possible WITHOUT WebTorrent, QuillJs and Vue.js"

Also you can store the files in local storage by hearting the article.

Re: Show HN: I built a peer-to-peer publishing platform

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Post by vishnu_ks »

djangowithme wrote: post #3

"This means to open and read a post in Peerdium at-least 1 other person should have the tab opened of the post" Are you running a server hosting 1 instance of each document so that there is always at least 1 other person hosting the page?

Nope. I am not seeding the articles. If no one else seeding the article it won't be available.

Re: Show HN: I built a peer-to-peer publishing platform

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Post by vishnu_ks »

stunpix wrote: post #35

ehh... what a naming. For russian speaking people it strongly co-sounds with "fart". ;) Please consider to rename it if platform targets worldwide.

Thanks for letting know. There is already an issue open for this in the repo https://github.com/hackerkid/peerdium/issues/2 :)

If there is demand for the service I will try renaming the project :)

Re: Show HN: I built a peer-to-peer publishing platform

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Post by stunpix »

vishnu_ks wrote: post #37
stunpix wrote: post #35

ehh... what a naming. For russian speaking people it strongly co-sounds with "fart". ;) Please consider to rename it if platform targets worldwide.

Thanks for letting know. There is already an issue open for this in the repo https://github.com/hackerkid/peerdium/issues/2 :) If there is demand for the service I will try renaming the project :)

Hope it will be demanded. BTW, last notable bad naming was a Fedora project for RaspberryPI named Pidora which sounded for russians as "faggot" :)

Re: Show HN: I built a peer-to-peer publishing platform

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Post by vishnu_ks »

Vinnl wrote: post #17
harigov wrote: post #5

Good idea. If there were some way to store that data in a more permanent form, that would have been awesome. Either way, a small nit. > Peerdium would not have been possible with WebTorrent, QuillJs and Vue.js I think you meant "Peerdium would not have been possible WITHOUT WebTorrent, QuillJs and Vue.js"

Interestingly, I suppose the Peerdium model means it can't be updated now? A new, corrected page could be published, but it would have a different identifier and would have to be re-seeded.

Yes. That is correct :)
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