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by david-given 3519 days ago
Is there a working ipfs demo page anywhere? I've had a look around and can't find one (the closest appears to be Orbit, but the ipfs-js version is down).

I'm particularly interested in using ipfs pubsub capabilities. It looks like an interesting way of allowing multiple users of a web app to talk to each other without needing (much) server side support.
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haadcode 3519 days ago
Unfortunately there's no proper demo page :/ We're working on improving the docs (we know this is big issues atm).

There's an old version (from June) of Orbit at http://orbit.libp2p.io which you can try. Much has happened since and we're working on bringing the js-ipfs version Orbit back to a working state.

Re.Pubsub, I'm personally also very excited about it! :) The specs and general info are located here https://github.com/libp2p/pubsub. go-ipfs merged pubsub into master some time ago with this commit https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/commit/e1c40dfa347e38bdc9812... and we're working to get it into js-ipfs here https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/530.

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qwertyuiop924 3519 days ago
Can I just take a moment to talk about how happy I am that the IPFS team is actually taking protocol documentation seriously, allowing for multiple implementations and the ability to understand how the protocol works?

IPFS and Matrix seem to be the only teams doing this: Dat and SSB have vague protocol documentation at best, only documenting bits of the protocol at all.

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