WHwhyrusleeping·Jun 12, 2019
Hey there! I’m one of the first developers to work on IPFS, and was the maintainer of the project for around three years. I’ve since been pulled into working on Filecoin, which has definitely taken away from the time I can spend pushing IPFS forward. That said, the IPFS Project has a really solid team and OSS community still pushing the project forward, and there is an entire team working on just libp2p (the network stack used by IPFS and other projects like Livepeer, Ethereum 2.0, OpenBazaar, and more). There’s been a ton of progress made recently, and the network has grown significantly. We’ve gone from nearly 30k peers last year (this is hard to estimate accurately, but best guess) to around 400k peers on the network today — roughly 13x growth. This massive influx in usage has taken a lot of our attention up, things catching fire that
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we didn’t expect to catch fire, and other bugs popping up that need to be fixed now. All this detracts our attention from things like docs and website publishing, but we recognize it’s a really important area we need to make time for and step things up. For example, there’s an overhaul of ipfs-cluster docs:
https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster-website/issues/89#issue...
We also put a lot of effort into our new docs website: https://docs.ipfs.io/
And we’ve been pushing a lot of specs for everything we build: https://github.com/libp2p/specs https://github.com/ipfs/specs https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs https://github.com/ipld/specs