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[fazo96]

I don't know if there's a chan log already, but a bot creating it and storing it in ipfs looks like a great idea to me. The only issue is how to split messages into files:

Do we use a file for every day containing all the messages of the day? Or we divide them by the hour? Or some other way? By the day sounds the best for me.

[jbenet]

Let's generalize this to hosting all botbot.me logs

[davidar]

@BotBotMe @bartTC @ipmb @yml Would mirroring botbot.me logs on IPFS be possible?

[ipmb]

I don't know much about IPFS. I'd need more information on what's involved to give you an answer.

[jbenet]

@ipmb it's a "distributed web" filesystem. all content (websites, data, arbitrary files) gets permanent content addressed, but also available with mutable addrs. think of IPFS like "git + bittorrent + web". for example, our website: https://ipfs.io -- can be accessed by any ipfs gateway:

• https://ipfs.io/ipns/ipfs.io
• http://erebor.benet.ai:8080/ipns/ipfs.io
• http://celebdil.benet.ai:8080/ipns/ipfs.io
• http://localhost:8080/ipns/ipfs.io <-- if you're running it locally
• fs://ipns/ipfs.io <-- if you had the right handler installed
• /ipns/ipfs.io <-- if you had ipfs mounted locally

And the content served is also accessible at content-addressed URIs:

• https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmeQT76CZLBhSxsLfSMyQjKn74UZski4iQSq9bW7YZy6x8
• http://erebor.benet.ai:8080/ipfs/QmeQT76CZLBhSxsLfSMyQjKn74UZski4iQSq9bW7YZy6x8
• http://celebdil.benet.ai:8080/ipfs/QmeQT76CZLBhSxsLfSMyQjKn74UZski4iQSq9bW7YZy6x8
• http://localhost:8080/ipfs/QmeQT76CZLBhSxsLfSMyQjKn74UZski4iQSq9bW7YZy6x8 <-- if you're running it locally
• fs://ipfs/QmeQT76CZLBhSxsLfSMyQjKn74UZski4iQSq9bW7YZy6x8 <-- if you had the right handler installed
• /ipfs/QmeQT76CZLBhSxsLfSMyQjKn74UZski4iQSq9bW7YZy6x8 <-- if you had ipfs mounted locally

What this boils down to is that -- with botbot.me -- we could:

• provide a content-addressed mirror / archive
• make the log viewer website distributed (like our ipfs.io site)

And have URIs like:

• https://ipfs.io/ipns/botbot.me/ipfs <-- the #ipfs channel archives mutable addr
• https://ipfs.io/ipns/botbot.me/ipfs/raw <-- the #ipfs channel archives raw data
• https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdmxWiLubwjDCk8UGXvihtpmWcopx4a6f8n7YYBnreGE6 <-- say, one snapshot.

[ipmb]

I won't have time to take this on, but the project is open source. If you'd like to see this functionality, fell free to contribute. I recommend starting by opening an issue at https://github.com/botbotme/botbot-web and discussing the general approach you would take before writing any code. We would want to know that it wouldn't cause any maintenance burden prior to accepting a pull request.

[Mikaela]

Will this issue be closed as there hasn't been activity in three years, GDPR is here and BotBotMe is closing in ten days?

[fazo96]

Yeah. We can reopen is there is any interest