Suggestion: Remove one of the points about IPFS's utility on IPFS.IO

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Hello there,
I would like to give some feedback about the IPFS.IO site, more precisely the paragraph on how “today’s web can’t preserve humanity’s history”, which I suggest gets removed as it doesn’t give a good impression of IPFS at all.

First off, the information according to which the average lifespan of a webpage is 100 days is coming from a 9-year old post and might not be accurate anymore.

And, second off, even if it is still accurate, it means there are a lot of webpages that are only let on the web for a short time. It does not mean there is a mysterious dark power that will take down any page. So to say that “today’s web can’t preserve humanity’s history”… Weeell… That’s not true. And the data presented is a terrible basis for that.

So, yeah, as this paragraph is pure junk, I suggest you find a better way of saying IPFS makes data mirroring simple and keeps every version of files.

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Thank you for the feedback! While we do strive to keep dialogue on our forums from using potentially hostile language (“pure junk” could be interpreted as such), you raise a valid point about the age of the original Alexa study.

The IPFS website, like the rest of the project, is open-source and welcomes contributions, issues and PRs! If you have suggestions for improvements to the text on the page, the repo is at https://github.com/ipfs/website . Thank you!

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