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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:

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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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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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.

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