IPFS Maintainers Winding Down • Hacker News Board

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by scirob » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

jMyles wrote: post #34

I publish all of my music in ways that are pirate-friendly, which for the moment just means Bit Torrent and IPFS. See: https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/Cryptograss:Delivery-kid If IPFS is starting to wane, does anyone else have a suggestion of a replacement about which I might start to educate my fans?

also still getting used in some libgen sci-hub mirrors

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by thataccount » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

What makes/made IPFS special was how it could be seen with relative ease on the standard internet. That feature allowed it to bypass censorship. I cannot say I am surprised that the funding was not re-upped since it seems like the modern web really loves censoring the crap out of things.

Edited: I also liked how it bypassed the traditional domain system.

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by mmastrac » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 6:02 PM UTC

I'm currently on sabbatical looking for volunteer work. I always thought IPFS was an interesting project, might be happy to pitch in some of my now-free bandwidth.

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by tingletech » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

I always thought https://named-data.net in this are was pretty interesting

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by scirob » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

I tried to build a few non crypto decentralized apps. The killer was reliable always deliverability inside the browser. https://inbrowser.link/ was a huge jump in utility but came to late the ipfs.js just never worked consistently. In the end the only way to get good XP for yours users was that you provider the IPFS to http gateway for all content but then whats the point its just decentralization theater.

I remember in 2015 having the IPFS concept blow my mind its such a memorable moment when it really felt like someone designed something significantly different that current mainstream paradigms. But in the end it seems like it was still a case of a cool technology looking for a use-case not solving a real problem.

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by timcobb » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC

0x457 wrote: post #56

timcobb wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hahaha thanks for this. It's ok, the asset is the block chain entry duh

The checksum of the asset is on the blockchain. the asset is somewhere else.

Hmm I thought the asset is the block chain entry because that's what you have the key to, that you can re-sell to someone else. It's like crypto, no?

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by timcobb » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 6:07 PM UTC

bigbuppo wrote: post #20

timcobb wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hahaha thanks for this. It's ok, the asset is the block chain entry duh

All my apes gone.

Gone but not forgotten

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by zeafoamrun » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 6:07 PM UTC

JuniperMesos wrote: post #48

> If you have a favourite memory of working with Shipyard, or an idea you always hoped IPFS would eventually achieve, we’d love to hear it. Google Form One important thing I'd like to see IPFS or a similar decentralized web technology achieve, is getting rid of the necessity of filling out a Google form in order to tell the Shipyard people what I think about their maintenance of IPFS. Seriously it bugs me when people…

Dude they just got shut down and will need to look for new jobs, cut them a tiny bit of slack.

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by tonyhb » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC

devttyeu wrote: post #4

Sad to see it go having been a maintainer some years ago. For anyone wondering, there are more sustainable (with a viable, focused business backing the project) options to do p2p, namely Iroh - https://www.iroh.computer/ which was built by ex-IPFS ex-Protocol Labs devs (I have no relation to the team beyond having worked with them back in the day). Sadly Protocol Labs is doing.. ehh whatever now, except apparently su…

Iroh seems more comparable to an L7 scoped Tailscale than it does IPFS. It's good, but pretty unrelated.

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by frollogaston » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 6:16 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #58

jMyles wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, when we do NFT ticketing these days, we just say, "have your 1155 ready" with a link to explain what that means. I still think it's pretty obvious that on sufficiently long time-scales that some variant of NFTs will be the winner for event tickets.

What advantage does blockchain ticketing hold over a centralized database of tickets?

Resale on third-party markets. Centralized is probably good enough for them though.