[cseelus]

Following the introduction tutorial, in which you add to the Radicle Garden[2] (which is a nice idea btw.), I get a 'The machine owner appears to be offline' when I try to propose my changes.

I think the very idea of Radicle is nice, but having a rock solid VCS is crucial to a developers workflow, so they really need to iron things like that out.

1) http://www.radicle.xyz/docs/index.html#installation-setup

2) http://www.radicle.xyz/garden/index.html

[StavrosK]

After being optimistic enough about IPFS to create a whole service around it (https://www.eternum.io), and mostly because of the service, I now have my doubts. Nodes can routinely not discover each other. I'll add a file to my node then request it from a gateway and it will take multiple minutes before the file is resolved. There's no information on how far along a pin is. The API for pinning things is atrocious (you need to keep the http request alive for the multiple days it might take to pin something). I have to resort to just retrying the pins over and over until they succeed.

I'm sure there's some information hidden somewhere if I shell out to the binary and parse the response well enough, but if a paid service required me to do this, I'd laugh and never touch them again. These days, whenever I see that something is "based on IPFS", I mentally translate it to "not working".

[feanaro]

> I'll add a file to my node then request it from a gateway and it will take multiple minutes before the file is resolved.

Sadly, I've noticed this myself. Have you reported these things to the IPFS developers?

> you need to keep the http request alive for the multiple days it might take to pin something

I didn't understand this part. You make the HTTP request towards your local IPFS daemon? Why does it take several days to pin something?