Roadmap

[vaultec81]

This is a work in progress roadmap. All items are planned features, currently without any specific version number or due date.

General:

• Ability to change location of ipfs repo and disable caching or ipfs entirely options.
• Soft storage limiter settings
• Run app in background even if main window is closed
• Follow user and ipfs caching pledge. Option to store all videos from an account of choice, either temporarily or permanently.

Usability:

• Language translations
• Choose ipfs repo location on initial app install
• Change ipfs cache duration
• Debug menu with version number, git commit, and other platform specific information
• Idiomatic loading
  • Always show a user some kind of status to whether it is loading, or have encountered an error. Improves UX.

Video player:

• Next video button
• Video recommendations as seen in the main 3Speak site.
• Custom offline first player at some point in the future. With support for all current features in Jwplayer (webm, HLS, mp4, etc)
• Ability to change default gateway
• Support for live streaming protocol when support is implemented
• Add ability to share clearnet web link on watch page
  • Functionality for pulling ipfs only uploads across to a public web portal

Local content cacher:

• Indexing posts from list of followers; Store orbitdb account info of following.

Account system:

• Local private key encryption
• Orbitdb account system
  • Create and finalize a metadata formatting for video posts.
  • Compatibility with other system
  • Account mutable file system (TMFS)
• Ability to bind multiple accounts together in the same user profile.
• Commenting, upvote, downvote, etc.
• Service node account graph sync.
• Export user profile to on file. Import user profile from file. Includes list of following, pins, etc.
• Sync following from Hive; Determine orbitdb account addresses from Hive metadata.

Distributed communities:

• Binding hive communities to distributed communities
• Multi administrator support
• Ensure no duplicate posts on hive and orbitdb community

Video uploader:

• FFmpeg local encoding
• Webm-vp9 option
• Hardware acceleration option
• Ability to add custom files such as webvtt captions.
• Thumbnail support
• IPFS cache wait lock. Ensure video has been cached on atleast 1 other node before proceeding to upload. Includes temporary upload acceleration servers.
• Communities support
• Livestreaming console

Video Metrics:

• Ability to see view counter on video. Requires service nodes to support view tracking.
• Video metric dashboard; (Not planning to add out of the box, future feature)

Other important notes:

• Service node roadmap will be in a separate repo.
• Seed based orbitdb keypairs (feat: pass seed to createKey orbitdb-archive/orbit-db-identity-provider#60) or tallylab-orbitdb-identity-provider