Show HN: Fully-searchable Library Genesis on IPFS
This is cool, but more centralized than it needs to be. The update check resolves libgen.crypto using @unstoppabledomains/resolution[0] with its default Ethereum provider, Infura[1]. That means that if Infura disables the default API key, goes down, or starts censoring responses, the update check will fail and users will be stuck on an older version of the site. Using the .crypto domain for updates is unnecessary, a simple IPNS[2] lookup (Not to be confused with DNSLink[3]) would've sufficed.<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@unstoppabledomains/resolution" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/@unstoppabledomains/resolution</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/unstoppabledomains/resolution/blob/HEAD/README.md#default-ethereum-providers" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/unstoppabledomains/resolution/blob/HEAD/R...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/ipns/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/ipns/</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/dnslink/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/dnslink/</a>