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RE: WHAT?? Upload an image to steemit, and it will be gone in a couple of months?
My understanding is that Steemit is eventually going to allow us to upload images for our posts, via the editor, and they are going to be stored at IPFS: https://ipfs.pics/
I don't know if that is still accurate, or what the consequences will be, but at one time, I read that that was the plan.
All images will be uploaded to IPFS and/or cached by steemit unless they violate our terms of service or the law.
Will this become available for audio and video files?
So the idea is that the IPFS network (much like bittorrent) will have thousands of nodes that store and share files. We upload through steemit. Steemit shares it on IPFS until it has enough seeders. Then steemit can download the image "on the fly" from IPFS if it isn't cached locally.
This stops the user from having to care how it all works, because all they know is they clicked something to upload the image, and they can view a steemit page and render the image without even knowing about IPFS.
Sounds great. Except for, how stable is the current IPFS network under load? I bet you its a great concept that hasn't under gone stress testing in a real word scenario. This is fairly new technology that should be toyed with, but probably not implemented in a real world app, at least for the next 2 or 3 years until the IPFS network grows substantially.
In simple words: Won't work good yet. Need to wait much longer time. :)
Eventually sounds nice. IPFS = The InterPlanetary File System.
If possible I'd like to delay the July 4th launch, until these problems are eventually fixed.
As long as that linkable image is still in the editor, this is going to be a severe problem for all users. Worse yet, there is absolutely no help windows that pop up explaining these things. You have to be a google mastermind to search for these answers ahead of writing your first post.
We need to keep this issue alive until it is not only implemented, but tested and producing the results we need.