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Comment by Borg3 | original | How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster
[−]Borg3 · 2026-07-01 Wed 19:03 UTC · link
Yeah.. IPFS is a bit disappointement. I was a bit exceited about it back in the day. Recently, I wanted to download sth large from archive.org, I used torrent (and my legacy torrent client) and it worked like a charm!

It seems pure HTTP tracker + Torrent is good enough.

[−]boramalper · 2026-07-01 Wed 20:21 UTC · link
I think the biggest sin of IPFS is not working natively in web browsers—instead, requiring the use of either HTTP gateways or native apps running outside the browser.
[−]dannyobrien · 2026-07-01 Wed 22:20 UTC · link
Actually, this works now! https://inbrowser.link/ https://github.com/ipfs/service-worker-gateway -- getting p2p working in browsers is still surprisingly hard: even the official routes like webrtc have lots of hard edge cases.