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it's remarkable! a bootstrap technique to improve time coherence -- what an innovation!

• viraptor 7y ago
  I think that was a dig at ipfs's issues with real world usage where a lot of traffic until recently was wasted on metadata and every node used lots of bandwidth to gossip. Meanwhile the actual throughout on a non-tuned node was not great at all.
  • StavrosK 7y ago
    Has this changed now?
    • viraptor 7y ago
      I just realised that "recently" happened at the end of 2018 https://blog.ipfs.io/53-go-ipfs-0-4-18/ https://blog.ipfs.io/53-go-ipfs-0-4-18/ - oops. There was also a change later which turned off nodes being the middleman by default, but not sure which version. It's supposed to be much better these days, but I haven't tried it again in a few months.
      • StavrosK 7y ago
        Ah, that agrees with my experience, I noticed the IPFS node behaving much better some time in the last year.