@ztein great story! I didn’t know about Opera Unite, nice idea! it might have been a different story if they had fixed the “offline” issue before they launched; who knows!
It would be nice to have a solution that allowed people to use a baseline free Solid pod but store more data, without ads and without any extra fees; in my head i’ve gone from hosting a pi, to having a decent router with a usb stick setup with FTP; but JS client can’t do ftp, so you’d have to include a 3rd party service, which is out. It would be interesting to look at a simple device that plugs into a standard router that acts like mini server / ftp to store more data for Solid apps.