Hey all, I made this post to show a technique that I'm using in my keyboard-centric flowchart editor [0]. I really love urls, and the power that they hold, and would love to see more apps implement little hacks like this.
Also, another shout out to mermaidjs and flowchart.fun for also implementing similar url-based sharing.
There is a size limit though that quickly gets exhausted if you are storing text (2000 chars)
Store the content in ipfs and just put the hash in the URL?
I haven't used https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs in this capacity but I'm under the impression that that's moving bits around like that is more or less its purpose.
Although I suppose this puts a burden on the URL-creator to pin the content until the URL-clicker doesn't need it anymore, which is not how URLs are supposed to work.