2read
Productivity
read-later archiver
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
5 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 5 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for keeping read-later articles from disappearing.
From 2 comments
I'm not sure whether this is a brilliant or a terrible idea. I have a tendency to collect my to-read stuff in tabs, and every once in a while I clean up my old tabs, read some of…
mcv on HN> Could you give me a little insight into your use case? I'm not the OP but a use case I might find useful is if you have a blog, want to comment on a news article, and want to…
cabalamat on HN
Objections
IPFS content is not a backup unless pinned to a node that keeps it.
From 4 comments
Is it really a backup? Ipfs has no 'upload' so if you clear your local storage, everything will be gone. I think it's unlikely that multiple users will generate the same content…
realPubkey on HNUnfortunately it's unlikely to be a backup, since everything will only live on your local computer. You might get the content from some other user if, by chance, they generated…
StavrosK on HNFrom the description "Please note that content shared with this addon is just cached on IPFS servers. If you want to store the content permanently, you need to have IPFS node…
darren0 on HN"Upload to IPFS" means save to your local IPFS repo and "pin" it. Means you'll never be able to find it again unless you keep the hash forever in a different, external database.…
fiatjaf on HN
Local node detection assumed default port and ipfs:// fallback did not work.
From 2 comments
> 2read will automatically "pin" your content if you have local node running. How does 2read detect the local node? My IPFS node runs on different ports. Will it be detected?…
shakna on HNUnfortunately ipfs:// didn't work, so I rolled back changes. I also don't have access to window.ipfs, so I don't know at the moment how to handle custom port.
meehow on HN
Requests
Detect IPFS nodes on custom ports.
From 2 comments
> 2read will automatically "pin" your content if you have local node running. How does 2read detect the local node? My IPFS node runs on different ports. Will it be detected?…
shakna on HNMost people don't change the ports, I'm an outlier, don't sweat it. If you can get it working with the protocol handler (ipfs://) that'd be awesome, but I went to the effort of…
shakna on HN
Questions
Does conversion happen locally?
From 1 comment
Just wondering, does it convert the article into a readable form locally? Not saying this could be useful for paywalled content but...
m-p-3 on HN
Alternatives named
Wallabag
From 1 comment
For self-hosted Pocket, there's already Wallabag, you might want to take a look. It would probably be easier to add IPFS archiving to Wallabag than to roll your own Pocket.
aasasd on HN
Firefox reader mode
From 2 comments
Firefox already has built-in ‘reader’ mode. Afaik Readability is their implementation (possibly old)―it's on Mozilla's GitHub.
aasasd on HNFirefox uses Readability.js for its reader mode https://github.com/mozilla/readability
thangngoc89 on HN
IPFS Companion
From 1 comment
Now it has a fallback to ipfs:// (in version 1.3). Thank for pointing it out. As I understand it will only work if you have IPFS Companion, right?
meehow on HN