(IPFS Dev here) Sort of, actually. The gist is that in general yes, the network is growing and getting better. But, there's actually a growing divide between th

(IPFS Dev here) Sort of, actually. The gist is that in general yes, the network is growing and getting better. But, there's actually a growing divide between the hyper-developed cities and ... the rest of the world. One example is this: if your bandwidth is too low, or your latency too high, you basically cannot use the Web as it is today. Native mobile apps do muuuch better, because you download them once and can use them mostly offline or with low network usage. The reason this is "getting worse" is more of a perception problem and an artifact of this fact: storage is getting cheaper faster than bandwidth is getting cheaper. Over time, our media usage (and thus perceived requirements) grows and grows, tons of websites today are _several megabytes!!_ and all the media we use keeps growing to fit our nicer screens. Also, as more and more people come on line, and their usage increases, the networks saturate. This causes the "perceived bandwidth" to decrease, meaning that the pipes (which are getting absolutely better) can handle a smaller percentage of our individual load and thus "feel worse". Then, there's are other stupid problems, like the fact that many major websites/webapps will be totally useless if you go over certain latencies (particularly with wireless meshes, meaning lots of packet loss). This is because the servers' request timeouts are way too low. I was recently traveling through _Europe_ and in many places (trains on the countryside or small cities) the mobile (and sometimes wired even!) latency was so high that i could not browse the web. TLS handshakes wouldn't complete. HTTP servers would give up on me. It was terrible-- as a person accustomed to LTE + fiber ("Aaaaahhhhhh the data!!!") I couldn't believe just how stupid and bad of an experience we're giving our users out there. This was Europe-- now transport yourself to Bangladesh, or many places in rural India where people are beginning to be plugged into the internet. Think of places where access to Wikipedia, to Khan Academy, to the messenger services, could make huge life-changing differences for people. Having a bad web _there_ is blocking people from having the amazing powers of communication and computing that we all get to enjoy. We must fix these problems. And we're going to fix them by improving the data model and the distribution protocols, not with optimistic policies.