Live IPFS reachability badge

[kallisti5]

It would be neat ™️ if the ipfs providers available number was somehow consumable by users in badge form:

Example svg badge:
https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/blob/main/media/badge-flat.svg

(ugly example) : providers available + last 6 of CID...

This would let users link directly to gateways hosting a CID with an quick visual indicator of how available the CID is on the network.

• 1 == "warning"
• 2+ == "highly available"

Caching this result for 24-48 hours would likely be more than enough to reduce any overuse of the lookup.

[kallisti5]

The overall idea here is it makes IPFS more understandable to users, while providing an encouragement for people to put content on IPFS (and keep it there for access)

[kallisti5]

Implementation ideas:

• On first query, the providers available count for a CID is an hourglass / counter / busy / etc.
• After the server check is complete and cached, it is rendered on follow up loads of the badge for 48 hours

It would make sense to render a base SVG and live "fill in" the data since it would require less data to cache.

[lidel]

Triage:

• sounds good as opt-in feature that someone can enable and pay the hosting cost on their own instance
• low priority as we would not provide it as free service on check.ipfs.network
• pr welcome <3

[Patrick-Ehimen]

@lidel can i be assigned this

[lidel]

@Patrick-Ehimen no need to ask, just open a PR. small ask: make sure its disabled by default and can be enabled via env variable

[Patrick-Ehimen]

@lidel thought so, too, as regards disabling by default. I'm already working on a pr and should be ready by EOD