IPFessay

IPFessay is an application that runs on IPFS and allows you to publish uncensorable essays to it. It supports Markdown for composition and lets you write and publish essays right from your browser, with no extra software or servers.

As long as IPFS is up, you'll be able to use IPFessay to publish texts to IPFS.

Using IPFessay (short version)

Just visit http://ipfessay.stavros.io.

Using IPFessay (long version)

To use IPFessay, you can just access it on a publicly writable gateway such as eternum.io:

https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/QmRrSvebYnUfNxR4wc52637tPjgCiUdiKLm9pzpzKcogG2

To use IPFessay on your personal node, you need to do a few things:

• Install IPFS (just copy the binary somewhere and run it).
• Launch the daemon in writable mode (ipfs daemon --writable).
• Visit the following link:

http://localhost:8080/ipfs/QmRrSvebYnUfNxR4wc52637tPjgCiUdiKLm9pzpzKcogG2

This is a sample essay just so you can see what they look like:

/ipfs/QmWFSuFDaApxK6DaBzEXdSXhb325fQY1hHn7Jc32DS77UK

The above links are immutable, ie they will always point to the same version of IPFessay, even if there is a later version available.

For an always-updated link to the latest version of IPFessay, use this:

/ipns/QmSWnBwMKZ28tcgMFdihD8XS7p6QzdRSGf71cCybaETSsU

Or the (fully functional) eternum.io link:

https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipns/QmSWnBwMKZ28tcgMFdihD8XS7p6QzdRSGf71cCybaETSsU

Contributing

Pinning

If you have a local IPFS daemon, please feel free to help out by pinning a version of IPFessay. You can very easily do this by running:

ipfs pin add QmRrSvebYnUfNxR4wc52637tPjgCiUdiKLm9pzpzKcogG2

Which will make you a host of IPFessay and help make it faster and more resilient.

Code contributions

Please feel free to open an issue or a merge request if you find something that can be improved or have any suggestions.

Thanks!

-- Stavros