Contrary to some other comments: no, IPV6 hasn't taken over the world at all.
Contrary to some other comments: no, IPV6 hasn't taken over the world at all. In my case, I administrate a small server at home, where I self host many services that are made available to myself, friends and families, over the internet. In that context, IPv6, is SADLY (please note that I have NOTHING against IPv6), a limitation, even a nightmare to use. Some programs do not handle IPv6 at all. Game servers for instance, do not support it, the one that I think about is: Arma 3. But there are many others In 2025 (and 2026 too?), 4G (5G?) operators do not all route over IPv6 -> which means that if your domain only has a AAAA record, some people using 4G will not be able to access ANY of your services. This issue forced me to beg my ISP to obtain an IPv4 "fullstack" as they call it. Without that IPv4 you have to go through some kind of tunneling (like Cloudflare) -> and guess what? Cloudflare sometimes crashes (it happened super recently remember?) and in that situation -> ALL your services accessible through the tunnel are "down" for your users. Plus, it is EXTREMELY unsatisfying to rely on an external private-owned service for a selfhosting project. In almost ALL context IPv6 is seen as optional, additional, additional configuration and is NEVER the default. NEVER. Which means: more configuration, possibly more struggle.
Posted by mrjay42 on Jan 2, 2026, 4:31 PM
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I can't recall who said it, but "The biggest problem with golden ages is that you never realize you're in one until it's over".
[BUG] No response from API error when Advisor is triggered
I thought the general premise is that humans can't form social groups bigger than around ~200.
great, now can we convince the rest of the internet to start adding AAAA records and ipv6 endpoints for things.
> It's only with the emergence of whiny, persnickety Unix devs who refused to leave the comforting embrace of their editor of choice that...
Contrary to some other comments: no, IPV6 hasn't taken over the world at all.
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Contrary to some other comments: no, IPV6 hasn't taken over the world at all.
Contrary to some other comments: no, IPV6 hasn't taken over the world at all. In my case, I administrate a small server at home, where I self host many services that are made available to myself, friends and families, over the internet. In that context, IPv6, is SADLY (please note that I have NOTHING against IPv6), a limitation, even a nightmare to use. Some programs do not handle IPv6 at all. Game servers for instance, do not support it, the one that I think about is: Arma 3. But there are many others In 2025 (and 2026 too?), 4G (5G?) operators do not all route over IPv6 -> which means that if your domain only has a AAAA record, some people using 4G will not be able to access ANY of your services. This issue forced me to beg my ISP to obtain an IPv4 "fullstack" as they call it. Without that IPv4 you have to go through some kind of tunneling (like Cloudflare) -> and guess what? Cloudflare sometimes crashes (it happened super recently remember?) and in that situation -> ALL your services accessible through the tunnel are "down" for your users. Plus, it is EXTREMELY unsatisfying to rely on an external private-owned service for a selfhosting project. In almost ALL context IPv6 is seen as optional, additional, additional configuration and is NEVER the default. NEVER. Which means: more configuration, possibly more struggle.
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