We will decommission the Hiro-hosted Gaia Hub on May 31, 2025, to reinforce our commitment to decentralization and empower greater user autonomy.
If you’re currently using the Hiro-hosted Gaia Hub, it’s time to transition to a self-hosted Gaia instance. This change puts you in full control of your data and storage.
I’m the creator of Brace.to and Justnote. Can you help check if our users are still using Hiro-hosted Gaia Hub?
We have our Gaia Hub on 1 Apr 2024 at hub.stacksdrive.com. Our new users use it by default, but our users who created their accounts before that don’t.
For Brace.to, a Gaia Hub bucket always contains a “links” folder. For Justnote, a Gaia Hub bucket always contains a “notes” folder.
IMHO, updating hubUrl at the account level is impractical as there is no public Gaia hub now. Maybe there should be both an app and account levels for the hub URL.
I also want to avoid depending on an external wallet. It doesn’t work on mobile. One account per app might suit some apps (not defi or social apps where a wallet and BNS are essential). Calling a smart contract directly to get a hub URL might be good enough for a productivity app.
Last but not least, this won’t be a focus. This is not in the roadmap. It must be a community effort!
@andresgalante I’m concerned about the impact this will have on Sigle users who are still using Gaia for their data storage. The May 31st deadline provides a very short migration window, especially considering the difficulties with the migration guide not working.
Would it be possible to:
Extend the decommissioning date beyond May 31, 2025, to allow more time for proper migration, or
Provide a data dump of our users’ content so we can at least serve a read-only version of that data if a full migration isn’t possible in time?
This would help ensure that Sigle users don’t suddenly lose access to their content and would give us the time to finish implementing a proper alternative to the current version built on Gaia.
