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Twitter Question: Why disable dht?

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In [his tweet](https://twitter.com/msfeldstein/status/1105980660970225664) @Msfeldstein asks: > Why does @dat_project mention disabling bittorrent dht for improved privacy? Does a dht or library like discovery-swarm have the same privacy expectations (~security by...

martinheidegger

Mention private key in documentation

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I cannot find any mention of the private key.

buckle2000

document `metadata.ogd`

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Created a new dat directory using `dat(1)`; found a new file in there. Curious what it's for, and how it's formatted. Thanks! 

yoshuawuyts

The [Download all files to computer](https://docs.datproject.org/diy-dat#download-all-files-to-computer) example in the [Build with DAT](http://192.168.2.54:9966/diy-dat) section is currently broken (see https://github.com/mafintosh/mirror-folder/issues/16).

aral

Rabin fingerprinting is not currently used

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This seems to cause frequent confusion. Eg, here's recent stackoverflow post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51587833/can-dat-protocol-efficiently-support-live-streaming-of-video I think "How Dat Works" should be updated, but I don't have a patch at this time.

bnewbold

Generally, we've tried to follow the [nodejs release schedule](https://github.com/nodejs/LTS#lts_schedule), including end of life for dropping support. We need to document this!

joehand

Provide information on deduplication

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De-duplication in DAT is not implemented, as there is no easy way to find out about hashes for files. In other words: there is no hash-index-table. This should be reflected...

martinheidegger

Provide information on how to move ownership

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Users may need to move hosting of a dat instance between machines, including ownership. Running out of disk space, moving from a playground setup to a more permanent one and...

konobi

There's confusion in the behavior and functionality of registries including services like homebase. While registries provide the functionality of making published dats available to peers, there's often a user hope...

konobi

Currently documentation refers to the availability of pinning services for dat. It's unclear as to where those services exist, which projects (either local or 3rd party) provide the functionality or...

konobi