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Serve lesson media using Cloudflare's ipfs gateway #6

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@garrison garrison commented Jul 1, 2020

One alternative to having a giant github repository with all the lesson media would be to host the lesson media on ipfs. Specifically, each lesson could contain a hash to a directory containing all of its media elements. Then each lesson could be edited independent of coordinating changes with the lesson media repository.

Here I do something much simpler and take the first step toward experimenting with this, i.e. serving all lesson media from a single hash over an ipfs/web gateway.

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garrison commented Jul 1, 2020

I meant to mention: this hash was obtained by running

$ git clone https://github.com/wikiotics/wikiotics.github.io.git wikiotics-media
$ ipfs add -r wikiotics-media/

on a virtual machine with the ipfs daemon running.

The primary point of having this pull request open is so we can test its performance/reliability on the Render preview.

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garrison commented Aug 9, 2020

As should be clear from my write-up in #15, I really want to use ipfs. But I just don't find it reliable, at all. Looking through my notes, I just recalled a critical article from a year ago, and my experiences to date have been similar. Less of a concern, but I've also not consistently been able to get answers to my questions on their forum.

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