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by asymmetric 2936 days ago
> We can't expect each client to have an ipfs client installed.

Couldn't they serve [js-ipfs](https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs)?

AFAIK that would make every user of the web app run an IPFS node.
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sillysaurus3 2936 days ago
This was very interesting, but sadly: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/tree/master/examples/exchang...

> Note: As js-ipfs@0.29.0 currently doesn't support DHT peer discovery, the peer from which you are fetching data should be within the reach (local or in public IP) of the browser node.

The PR to implement DHT has been languishing since May 2017: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/856/files

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asymmetric 2936 days ago
> The PR to implement DHT has been languishing since May 2017: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/856/files

But it just received an update 4 days ago! :)

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