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would this one be beta instead? Unless I have misinterpreted 'publish', wouldn't this require having a list of user accounts and associated published dats ?

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depends on how you look at it? kind of a product-y decision. imo i would like the option to unpublish dats whether i have an account or not. its really up to you guys tho. personally i could be persuaded either way.

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(am interpreting publish very loosely -- think drag and drop files as an anonymous (alpha) user)

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Perhaps we need to define the difference between 'publish' and 'broadcast' -- are we talking about leaving the swarm? If so, makes sense to have that in there.

I was thinking 'publish' was sort of like 'npm publish,' which would mean creating a user account/name, maybe some metadata, and pushing it to a mirror

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Right, OK so you mean like, leaving the swarm! That makes sense for it to be in alpha then.

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yeah, was thinking of this as "unbroadcast" in your terminology. maybe i should change the wording in the title from "unpublish" to "remove". was thinking of this task in terms of "how does dat metadata get removed".

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another aspect of this task is: only the archive owner should be able to remove the dataset. but we should also probably have an admin tool in dat.land as well for removing inappropriate/spam dats.

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Yeah, I agree. I'd say let's save the admin tool for until we have user accounts.

How about if we make this issue for the smallest thing, which is that a user can remove a dat from the swarm. Similar to how in BitTorrent you can stop seeding.

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@juliangruber is there a way to do this on the desktop app? (stop seeding)

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@Karissa you can remove a dat, but currently that only rm -Rfs its download path and makes sure when you launch the app for the next time it won't replicate it any more. i haven't added logic for closing the swarm yet

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ok cool makes sense. we might want some sort of a 'pause' button on it then. maybe we could look at how bittorrent sync or utorrent does this and copy the ui

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