This is one of the biggest reasons I want the web to start moving towards content-addresses instead of location-addresses.
It's unreasonable to expect that a service like rawgit would stay online forever. But even if someone else steps in and builds something equivalent, or if sites turn around and start self-hosting, all of those URLs still need to change.
People focus on the flashy parts of DAT and IPFS like, "oh, someone else could host my website." But there's a much more mundane and arguably much more important side of that which is, "One day NPM might have a different URL." Rehosting content is pretty easy, getting sites and dependencies to link to it is very hard.
And it's not just the problem of updating all of your own projects, there are projects that aren't going to be updated. Rgrove is being super nice about all of this, but there are sites that are going to break in a year, and nobody can really do much of anything about it.
It's unreasonable to expect that a service like rawgit would stay online forever. But even if someone else steps in and builds something equivalent, or if sites turn around and start self-hosting, all of those URLs still need to change.
People focus on the flashy parts of DAT and IPFS like, "oh, someone else could host my website." But there's a much more mundane and arguably much more important side of that which is, "One day NPM might have a different URL." Rehosting content is pretty easy, getting sites and dependencies to link to it is very hard.
And it's not just the problem of updating all of your own projects, there are projects that aren't going to be updated. Rgrove is being super nice about all of this, but there are sites that are going to break in a year, and nobody can really do much of anything about it.