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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds
Our newest IPFS Gateway plugin just went live! 🎉 Hot Swaps allows developers to map IPFS CIDs to new content. This is useful when you want to maintain a single gateway URL while updating content. We're making IPFS content mutable when this plugin is installed. Read more here: https://pinata.cloud/blog/introducing-hot-swaps-the-easiest-way-to-make-ipfs-content-mutable/
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@vrypan.eth
If the purpose of storing data to IPFS is to be accessed through a specific gateway that uses the CID as an internal index to serve whatever it wants, what's the purpose of using IPFS in the first place?
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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds
This is a convenience layer for developers. The original file is still available through any other gateway and peer to peer. However, if a developer wants the convenience of not having to update a database or index file, this is a good solution. Similar to using DNS updates to route to a CID
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
I get it. My concern is that from now on, https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/ is not guaranteed to return what I expect. Of course, gateways never provided any technical assurance that they will return the CID I requested. It was just a social convention. In a way, it's good to remind people that when they request CID X from a gateway, it may return whatever it wants, and the only reliable way to retrieve IPFS data is directly through IPFS.
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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds
Correct. There is a lot of trust involved. The truth is, as much as we talk about trust-lessness in web3, many developers and users want to trust the services they interact with. We've worked to mitigate concerns in this initial release (i.e. a header with the swapped CID in the response), but there's more we'd like to do, possibly even onchain. The trick is gauging adoption based on usage and feedback as opposed to assumption. FWIW we sent a survey out via blog and email before ever building gateway plugins mentioning this as an idea for a plugin and it was THE most popular plugin idea listed.
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