← Back to context Comment by mhitza 7 months ago Do you happen to know why wikipedia didn't embrace torrents as the default download method? 3 comments mhitza Reply dijit 7 months ago Speculating: because torrents are not especially good at dealing with small modifications?Most people probably won't seed many versions, so it's a losing effort, and you need to allocate a huge chunk of space for each version.Deduplicating filesystems are sadly not in vogue. mmooss 7 months ago Most people don't use torrents. davidkwast 7 months ago I think it is a nice use case for IPFS
dijit 7 months ago Speculating: because torrents are not especially good at dealing with small modifications?Most people probably won't seed many versions, so it's a losing effort, and you need to allocate a huge chunk of space for each version.Deduplicating filesystems are sadly not in vogue.
Speculating: because torrents are not especially good at dealing with small modifications?
Most people probably won't seed many versions, so it's a losing effort, and you need to allocate a huge chunk of space for each version.
Deduplicating filesystems are sadly not in vogue.
Most people don't use torrents.
I think it is a nice use case for IPFS