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Summary: The above video's framerate is too low for the animation to be fully appreciated, but handling of animated GIFs within text files (made with Chafa) is like a nice 'Easter egg' in the Go(Lang) IPFS implementation

IN IPFS, which is file type-agnostic, a lot of things are possible, including exchange of large videos. It's like P2P but without centralisation of any kind (even hashes or similar file identifiers).

As a matter of fact, even in the command line animated IPFS objects are sort of feasible, as demonstrated above (this is a recent daily bulletin of ours, retrieved over IPFS with the command ipfs cat QmQPL4aU5VkHzGprihFtysZx7tMGqLPQa11SU2s4ao6H6r using the Go(Lang) IPFS implementation).

Recently, however, we've had issued. The availability of our IPFS objects, given their hashes, hasn't been great to say the least. Lately we've been struggling to meet the growingly unreasonable bandwidth demands associated with the software, which appears to scale poorly (we're made almost 4,000 objects already, so that's many hashes to keep abreast of and send upstream). Then again, IPFS is still not a fully mature piece of software, so there's hope it'll improve a lot over time. Becoming more easy to use (accessible etc.) is another truly important need. ⬆