For years I've been reading HN comments sections for IPFS links for years. In the past IPFS developers would show up to defend it, but for this link at least so far I haven't seen any.
Is this an admission that IPFS is unworkable, and they don't have any prospects of making it usable in the next few years?
Hello! o/ We've responded to a number of points here.
You can check out our roadmap
> IPFS is unworkable... making it usable in the next few years
Absolutely not.
The OP brings up a lot of great, useful feedback for us, and we'll respond to it.
But the OP is also simply wrong in saying it's "not usable". There are millions of end users benefiting from IPFS, 100Ks of libp2p nodes, we see PBs/mo of traffic in the infrastructure that we run, and millions of daily requests to our gateway. Look to fully decentralized applications and systems like OpenBazaar, Textile, Dtube, and others.
Beyond that, we're well aware of the many shortcomings, and working on them. We're unfortunately spread thin across a lot of projects (IPFS, libp2p, filecoin, ipfs-cluster, etc), but each is seeing significant growth and improvement.
Hey there! I'm usually one of the people who likes to engage on HN. I'm actually taking a couple days off to visit family, someone just texted this thread to me. I'm gonna go through and respond to some stuff now.
Is this an admission that IPFS is unworkable, and they don't have any prospects of making it usable in the next few years?