you could also parse the uri for profiles straight away or structure the paths a little differently
to shorten even more, but the hash will have to be in there
I'm also having connectivity issues with the gateway version of 0.9.4 right now, we're using the IPFS public webrtc node for discovery by default and sometimes they break
1 sec
(when you're using this for more than a demo, you can add nodes in the ipfs settings)
StationedInTheField
@StationedInTheField
Yeah, seems to be a WebRTC issue at the moment, it's funny that vascos(ipfs) just closed the issue today
I'll see that I can fix this asap, I'll be giving a 10 minute talk about it on the next IPFS meetup, I sure hope that doesn't happen when people try it after my talk
Alex Siman
@siman
:(
do you work at ipfs?
i mean Protocol Labs
StationedInTheField
@StationedInTheField
No, my projects are entirely funded by direct donations - I'm however building several networks on top of IPFS up until 0.47 we had no issues with ipfs pubsub whatsoever, ever since 0.48 it's been a little rocky
Alex Siman
@siman
how do you build/aggregate a public state of the network?
so people could explore/discover content/posts without the need to connect to nodes
StationedInTheField
@StationedInTheField
a main point in our network is not to do that, we're adding it as "global" where we let people share their content on ethereum, but we would like to see smaller economic clusters, the content is stored on ipfs, so only references need to be passed and once you can get references of friends of your friends and nested further, you theoretically have access to the whole network as well
linkedin virtually works like that
The issue right now is with the IPFS node that I've given as an example configuration, my best guess right is that they seem to have some load balancing going on which lets different instances end up in different pools and doesn't work for pubsub
StationedInTheField
@StationedInTheField
Yep it definitely seems to be that
When you open two browser windows, say one with the pinata link the other with the cloudflare link pretty much at the same time, they'll be in the same pool and able to communicate
That's not so great XD
You can try this channel invite:
(can be shortened as well but most people are using the qr codes)
To summarize, our network is built to keep malicious actors and advertisers out of our communities by default, so once global profiles and posts are available, we recommend to really only use those for advertising purposes