Zeronet: How is this different from IPFS?

Created on 6 Sep 2015  路  5Comments  路  Source: HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet

Hi, As i understand this project is a combination of bittorent decentralised technology and bitcoin-like crypto to serve web pages.
How is this different from https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/ where both of these technologies are already implemented?
Apart from TOR compatibility, every feature of ZeroNet is already implemented in IPFS. Am I wrong? could you share some light on this?

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From what the IPFS developers said, IPFS does support dynamic content.

You can _distribute_ dynamic content via IPFS.
You need to write your own JavaScript script to call ipfs to publish dynamic content.
There is no built-in support for basic features like forum and comment.
ZeroNet is full stack dynamic, but IPFS only provides the backend (storage) of dynamic site.
For now, static sites with a lot of files, use IPFS.
Dynamic sites like forum or ZeroMe, use ZeroNet.
Small static site, use either.

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IPFS does not support dynamic content as far as I know and the content distribution works differently. There is lots of similar project out there ZeroNet created to focus on simplicity, easy of usage and user experience.

From what the IPFS developers said, IPFS does support dynamic content. As for TOR or VPN etc., IPFS works flawlessly on top of that, as ZeroNet does.

From what the IPFS developers said, IPFS does support dynamic content.

You can _distribute_ dynamic content via IPFS.
You need to write your own JavaScript script to call ipfs to publish dynamic content.
There is no built-in support for basic features like forum and comment.
ZeroNet is full stack dynamic, but IPFS only provides the backend (storage) of dynamic site.
For now, static sites with a lot of files, use IPFS.
Dynamic sites like forum or ZeroMe, use ZeroNet.
Small static site, use either.

i use ipfs for everything, zeronet is cool but it is slow on boot

The startup speed zeronet has been fixed, please check the blog for instructions

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