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Comment by JeremyBanks | Hacker News Reader

Regarding IPFS: I'm very disappointed in the progress that IPFS has made. I was extremely excited when it was first announced, but it's taking so long for them to make useful progress they I've lost faith. So many of the projects under their umbrella are incomplete and untouched in a long time.

Regarding this project: Several of the existing centralized imageboards are already breeding grounds for terrorists. The world does not need this.

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What were your expectations that have been unmet? Which projects were you excited about that have been untouched?

I'm extremely impressed with the progress that IPFS has made - I'm an active (daily) user, and have implemented archiving systems with their tools. Clusters and pinset management in particular have improved substantially, browser support for ipfs:// natively has started to roll out - to name two things I've worked with recently. The libp2p project itself is another example.

> browser support for ipfs:// natively has started to roll out

Apart from beaker which is a special case, who else supports it natively?

You can track progress here: https://arewedistributedyet.com/programmable-custom-protocol...

The last Chrome release related to this was in September: https://blog.chromium.org/2020/09/chrome-86-improved-focus-h... where they safelisted a number of protocols in registerProtocolHandler().

As it happens, even Beaker dropped IPFS years ago: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/455

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Perhaps they're just lacking the man-hours necessary to make the progress that you expect. Maybe you could help them out.

Iirc, they've got 200 millions in VC funding, enough to buy 500 dev-years of really experienced devs.

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