Yes, we do and the integration with IPFS is already set and tested on our servers. A link containing a hash of the image can be safely stored to the blockchain so no hardfork is required.
However, there are two main reasons why we still use non-IPFS centralized cloud storages for image hosting:
- IPFS protocol never guarantees you that the image/file is going to be received by the end user that requested the photo.
- Based on our tests it may take up to 20 minutes to fetch a photo by its hash through IPFS, while the upper bound we can allow ourselves for robust user experience is a few seconds.
So yes, we are planning the integration with IPFS but we keep looking for solutions for the issues described.
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