RSS Feed Development / IPFS Troubleshooting

[tehchives]

@JFWooten4 @JamesAlfonse

Just was copying over the RSS feed from the taking stock github and replacing relevant .mp3 links but decided to test several and every one I tested, I would get the following 504 gateway error:

" The gateway is taking too long to fetch your content from the public IPFS network. This could be due to several reasons:

There are no providers for CID in the IPFS network
The provider node for the CID is offline, on a slow network connection, or is overloaded

You might try waiting for a while and trying again. To prevent having this problem in the future, why not self-host a node? You will be able to get all the content in the IPFS network straight from its source! For more information see the implementations page. You might also want to have a look at the IPFS companion browser extension which will allow your browser to seamlessly fetch content from your local node.

How you can proceed:

Verify the URL and try again.
Self-host and run an IPFS client that verifies your data.
Try diagnosing your request with the IPFS diagnostic tools.
Inspect the CID or DAG."

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My IPFS node seems to be seems to be seeding now and I know you guys have mirrors so I'm not sure what is going on there, any ideas?

[JamesAlfonse]

From my side, I had closed out of the IPFS client at some point to free up some memory on my laptop. I just reopened it, see if you can try it again! I should have a more consistent/available node in the next week or so when I set up Linux on a desktop (@LastResortFriend was kind enough to send me one!)

I think the files just weren't available on the network before and that was causing the error you saw. Perhaps when we ask for volunteers to help with pinning on IPFS, we can focus on availability by specifying a preference for users with desktops?

[tehchives]

Oh, maybe that was it! I had thought that pinning the episodes would have led to some community seeding? Maybe that's limited - makes sense if it was.

I can confirm I just tested an ep at random and it's loading properly now, so perhaps it was as simple as that. I'll carry on with the RSS setup then and we can solve for stability on the other side as you say!

also, wow! LRF sent you a desktop?? That's awesome!

[JFWooten4]

🔥

Thanks LRF! 💜

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I've been trying to download the files for weeks now, and this applies to both the podcast and DUNA meeting Chives has (as opposed to the few I recorded).

Glad to see progress here and hope we can get it working for the video content too, which could be more bandwidth. Awesome job James getting it running and going through the tech migration 🧠