It is possible to connect a Friend or Peer and add them into Known Peers. In this way we can keep track of the connections, Ping and Connect directly to them with a click, without the need to remember their IDs! This should speed up resolving and retreiving content that your friends have.

Giving more information with Qick Cards

One important change in Siderus Orion v1.1 is the addition to what we call Quick Cards. 🔍 Those are small, detailed and usefult elements that are designed to give the quick information about the IPFS peer status.

Since not everybody might like the new Cards, it is possible to disable them from the settings, don’t worry! 😉 Let us know on twitter or in the chat room if you like this new feature! 🥳

Other Changes worth mentioning

One of the most important minor changes is related to Privacy. Now Orion is not sending Telemetry data anymore to Google Analytics and Mixpanel, instead we decided to use Matomo. This decision was done to respect users privacy even more when they want to help the development of the app by opting-in for sharing telemetry data.

Some other minor changes worth mentioning in Siderus Orion v1.1 are:

Some Activities are now clickable , to quick access the content

, to quick access the content It is now possible to resolve IPNS paths

paths While importing content there is a proper progress bar

Added Copy public Link in the actions for quick shares

Improved performances when using Siderus’ Gateway

All the other changes are available in the Changelog on Gitlab 😉

How to download Orion

The application is available for downloading here. As we always intended, Orion is easy to use and we will stick to our principles to make IPFS for Everybody! 🚀 There is no need to know how to use the terminal and the command line, a simple drag and drop, right click on a file will help you sharing files with IPFS.

We are always online on the decentralised Chat Room to offer help. For more info visit our website and follow our blog or Siderus twitter account!