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IPFS is a peer-to-peer distributed file system protocol enabling users and developers to store and share content across a decentralized network.

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This page reflects public online discussion, collected and scored by automated systems and summarized using AI. It is not a statement of fact, not an audit, and not our own opinion of the product. Automated analysis can be incomplete or wrong, and scores carry the limitations described in our methodology. Companies can respond with their own perspective. See how this is calculated.

Overall Pulse Score

48
Pulse Score

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A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 254 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 23 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.

Weekly Sentiment Trend

Pulse Score by week over the selected period. Each point is one complete week of mentions.

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Sentiment mix by week

How the tone of public discussion splits each week.

Ringed points mark weeks with unusually high discussion volume, more than double this product's typical week.

Most-discussed praise

Strong features64
Good integrations38
Reliability21
Performance12
Feature requests12

Most-discussed complaints

Reliability75
Bugs59
Missing features30
Downtime17
Performance13

Themes across the selected period, with mention counts.

How IPFS compares

Pulse Score over the selected period versus the top tracked competitors in Cloud Storage.

Where the mentions come from

Share of the 254 relevant public mentions in the selected period, by source.

GitHub52% (133)
Hacker News35% (88)
Bluesky13% (33)

Sample public mentions

Showing 5 of 254 analyzed public mentions in this period, with links to the original source. We do not reproduce full threads.

my old crew before i quit to get revenge on adolf hitler. always under budget and over delivered 😇 have done blockchain and protocol work all across the board; good relationships with standards orgs; knows why IPFS sucks so bad and how to make it good; etc.

BlueskyJun 9, 2026

Basically the title. Frenchie and I made a little p2p chat on top of libp2p, using IPFS bootstrap nodes. Works surprisingly okay.I don't know what to do with it now. Feel free to use. There's no encryption YET, should be easy to add.The starting idea was if the current libp2p sta...

Hacker NewsMar 7, 2026

The bootstrap node in js-peer doesn’t seem to be working.. The bootstrap node in js-peer doesn’t seem to be functioning. I tested delegated routing at https://delegated-ipfs.dev using the peer ID: 12D3KooWFhXabKDwALpzqMbto94sB7rvmZ6M28hs9Y9xSopDKwQr but it did not return any peer...

GitHubMar 5, 2026

Provide.DHT.ResumeEnabled set to false does not initiate full reprovide. ### Checklist - [x] I am reporting a documentation issue in this repo, not https://docs.ipfs.tech. - [x] I have searched on the issue tracker for my issue. Location https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/d...

GitHubJun 22, 2026

DNSLink resolving to IPNS regression. ### Checklist - [x] I have searched the issue tracker for existing issues. Description TLDR We seem to have DNSLink+IPNS regression since ipfs/helia-verified-fetch@9d2d7c2 which rewrote the URL resolution logic. When a DNSLink TXT record poin...

GitHubFeb 24, 2026

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Member perspectives

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Data summary

Total mentions analyzed (all time)
853
Mentions in selected period
254
Weeks in range
23
vs Cloud Storage average (47)
Above by 1
Pricing
Free
Sources
GitHub (133), Hacker News (88), Bluesky (33)

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