The “Hello IPFS” exercise with IPNS from the docs works great. Is there more IPNS documentation someplace? While something like pinata can pin IPFS hashes, there apparently is no service that can “pin” IPNS records. After a little further investigation, it seems there is a lot of IPNS understandin…

no IPNS pinning service? Because no one made one yet. This is a feature we want, no one got around doing it yet. web3.storage works on a similar feature I belive. Will a node republish automatically (as implied by the Ipns.RepublishPeriod config setting) or will I need a cron job for that? …

If you’re wanting to code in Java (back end) SpringBoot project for this new CMS let me know because we can collaborate. I have a lot done toward this goal.

[image] Jorropo: no IPNS pinning service? Because no one made one yet. This is a feature we want, no one got around doing it yet. web3.storage works on a similar feature I belive. I’m always a little confused when people refer to a possible “IPFS pinning service”. What functionality are …

I think people are looking for an app or service similar to cloud backup services, image sharing apps, file sharing apps, etc. They don’t necessarily want to install their own gateway and may not even be a developer. For an end user to “use IPFS” and be assured their stuff is stored on IPFS with IP…

First of all my no-backend CMS apparently isn’t possible yet, because: IPFS in browsers have very limited (essentially no) access to the IPFS network. Yeah, that is an issue that brings an immediate halt to this project. Bummer :frowning: [image] Jorropo: So there is an ambiguity when we ta…

[image] pmorch: Yeah, that is an issue that brings an immediate halt to this project. In case that wasn’t clear, you can, you just need to relay with a local IPFS node or a pinning service.

[image] Jorropo: In case that wasn’t clear, you can, you just need to relay with a local IPFS node or a pinning service. :slight_smile: Thanks, yes I get that. As I pointed out in the OP the idea was to create a CMS editor that doesn’t need any backend other than js-ipfs. So no local IPFS nod…

Also, is any of this documented anywhere other than the relatively short IPNS documentation ?

Be sure you’ve seen OrbitDB, and also, unrelated to IPFS there’s WebTorrent which I’ve used successfully and is pretty cool too.

I don’t belive so, the issue is that this is implementation details, any documentation about this will get wrong quickly if anyone just make a PR fixing thoses issues.

IPNS - beyond the basics - no IPNS pinning service? Any docs on this?

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I’m always a little confused when people refer to a possible “IPFS pinning service”. What functionality are people referring to? Being able to pin the content pointed to by an IPNS record or republishing IPNS records?

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