onetrickwolf

I don't really see how this would make sense or even be possible purely from the frontend, I think you'd need to modify the typeahead service unless I am misunderstanding the requirements.

I think people seem them as dead because a small percentage of internet users engage with them, but people forget that billions more people have access to the internet now. Even though it's a smaller percentage, the actual number of users has still gone up generally in my experience.

> If you can not have one guy taking up the mantle and doing the hosting, how can you get hundreds to do the same?

Well I mean if you were to use a public blockchain like Ethereum it's likely the Ethereum community wouldn't be going away. I am not thinking about rolling out our own chain.

> Community run projects have existed for decades on the internet. They never needed a blockchain to persist

Unfortunately my experience hasn't really been the same. Community data controlled by a single user can go away pretty easily. If you open up the data and let people host their own database then you don't have a single source of truth.

Our data is largely just a ledger of who owns what with minimal meta data.

> IPFS potentially

Thanks will look into it!

A reason I have been interested in blockchain is that it seems like a good way to make a decentralized application that could exist beyond the life of the company or person that creates it.

I work in a hobby industry where a lot of community run ledgers are suddenly lost forever due to the death of someone in the fandom (or rarely intentional sabotage or hacking).

Would this be a good use for blockchain or are there maybe other solutions I'm not considering or aware of?

I am new to this site, why is there just a link to Apache NiFI on the front page? Is this somehow news? Sorry not trying to be rude just confuses me a bit since NiFi has been around for some time.