Host an Etherpad instance on IPFS

[RichardLitt]

We've used Etherpads a lot as part of the IPFS hangout process. I raised the idea of hosting an Etherpad on an IPFS domain here, but we should also look into hosting one using IPFS.

This has been mentioned in the CRDT discussion, #40 (comment), too:

(c) as a "small first step" we really want to make a CRDT based Etherpad on IPFS, and a CRDT based markdown editor. I know many are out there, but are there any easy to rebase on top ipfs?

[victorb]

We've started using Hackmd instead of Etherpad, we still have any use-cases for Etherpad? There was a small discussion about putting Hackmd on ipfs here: hackmdio/codimd#251

[RichardLitt]

It might be useful for others, too. :)

[RichardLitt]

This has been mentioned as a possibility for showcasing orbit-db, too. See https://github.com/haadcode/orbit-db/issues/148.

[jbenet]

check it out http://peerpad.net/

[RichardLitt]

This is pretty awesome! Nice!

[jurjendevries]

Hi, interesting question. I found this topic because I am looking for a Google Docs look-a-like which is available distributed both the app as storing documents. Nice to see some of you were already looking for it a couple of years ago. http://peerpad.net/ looks nice, and if I understand it well it is using https://demo.hedgedoc.org/ . The editor is nice, but seems a but more for technical purpose than for regular document writing. I also looked into Etherpad, but I guess it can't run on IPFS because some of it's code/script is server side instead of client side. (correct me if I am wrong). Are there any other updates or resources?