Hearth
Infrastructure
decentralized web publishing
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
5 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 18 critical, out of 45 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Idea: 5 for, 12 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Easy drag-files-to-folder publishing UX
From 1 comment
It's personal preference, some people will prefer Beaker, we personally liked the "drag some files to a folder and that's it" UX. By the way, I'll mention this here because it…
StavrosK on HN
Objections
Beaker already offers similar drag-and-drop publishing and cross-platform support
From 2 comments
Why not use Beaker[0] and achieve the same thing, but on linux and windows too? It has a great community too [0](http://beakerbrowser.com/)
tomcooks on HN> we personally liked the "drag some files to a folder and that's it" UX. Beaker does this... In terms of getting a free username on a HTTP website, https://hashbase.io/…
lucideer on HN
Pinned content depends on someone keeping a node online
From 2 comments
I need to leave my mac running (or install IPFS on a VPS) so that if anyone wants to read my personal site there is a source online that can provide the content right?
Xeoncross on HNCan this be used for simple IPFS file hosting with pinned files? I'm building a small web app and want to use IPFS for image storage. In testing I was able to create the files…
sprice on HN
Decentralization is limited when a pinning service is used
From 1 comment
How does Hearth achieve the "decentralized" status? I assume Hearth is offering a small-volume pinning service on the side as a charity right now? If that's true, it's…
KirinDave on HN
Requests
Support for Linux and Windows
From 2 comments
Why not use Beaker[0] and achieve the same thing, but on linux and windows too? It has a great community too [0](http://beakerbrowser.com/)
tomcooks on HN> we personally liked the "drag some files to a folder and that's it" UX. How much extra work would it have been to add a "drag some files to a folder and run publish_website"…
cabalamat on HN
Command-line publish option
From 1 comment
> we personally liked the "drag some files to a folder and that's it" UX. How much extra work would it have been to add a "drag some files to a folder and run publish_website"…
cabalamat on HN
Questions
Security implications of hosting and viewing static IPFS content
From 1 comment
Never having used or looked into Beaker, dat, ipfs, etc, some immediate questions about security implications come to mind: 1) Someone accesses your "site" directly on your…
indigodaddy on HN
How to navigate and find sites on IPFS
From 1 comment
Never having used or looked into Beaker, dat, ipfs, etc, some immediate questions about security implications come to mind: 1) Someone accesses your "site" directly on your…
indigodaddy on HN
Alternatives named
Beaker browser (dat://)
From 1 comment
Why not use Beaker[0] and achieve the same thing, but on linux and windows too? It has a great community too [0](http://beakerbrowser.com/)
tomcooks on HN
Blockstack
From 1 comment
Or BlockStack[0] even [0](https://blockstack.org)
jaboutboul on HN
Peerweb
From 1 comment
Peerweb¹ will be much more user-accessible since it works with normal browsers and retains your current URL structure (even for user-generated content). Additionally, our…
Sephr on HN