Doesn't Anna's Archive already include a full backup of Sci-Hub and distribute it via Torrent and IPFS in addition to their website and the providers and mirrors they usually use for uploading?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Scihub database stops in 2021. Big win for corporate publishers and wealthy scientists; they've had an edge since then. It's super important to have access to up to date resources. The database here seems to fill the gap - Merry Christmas to me!!

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Anna's Archive allows new uploads though. From their website:

We have the full Sci-Hub collection, as well as new papers.

https://annas-archive.org/scidb

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Wrong. Annas Archive doesn't Accept Uploads directly themselves (at least <10.000), and they recommend STC too.

To upload academic papers, please also (in addition to Library Genesis) upload to STC Nexus. They are the best shadow library for new papers.

https://annas-archive.org/faq

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I think they stopped endorsing IPFS. I can't find a good source right now. If you wan't to support Anna's Archive, you can help seed their torrents. They don't seem to have that much redundancy.

[–] doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're right.

We’ve decided that IPFS is not yet ready for prime time. We’ll still link to files on IPFS from Anna’s Archive when possible, but we won’t host it ourselves anymore, nor do we recommend others to mirror using IPFS. Please see our Torrents page if you want to help preserve our collection.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious, could anyone more knowledgeable about IPFS give an impression of the state of the protocol? It seems like a really interesting technology, but it also leans heavily into web3 and crypto bullshit. It's that reflective of the network, or just bad marketing?

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It seems like most big projects have dropped it. I remember reading one of the big fall backs was it has one central node hosting via cloudflare then they dropped it or something. Only half remembering. It sounds so cool! Sad it doesn’t work

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

Can confirm. Meddled with it a little bit a while ago trying to productively use it to host Lutris installer files. It's an absolute mess; slow, unreliable, without proper documentation and a really bad default node application.

Also it managed to get our server temporarily banned by the hosting provider since the "sane default settings" includes the node doing a whole sweep of your local subnet on all NICs respectively, knocking at multiple ports of every device it can find. Because the expected environment of a node apparently is your home network… a default setting that caused problems for many people for many years by now.

A project like in this post might benefit from looking at more modern/mature reimplementations of IPFS' concept, like Veilid (which would also offer additional features as well).