[viraptor]

Ipfs doesn't provide a storage service as such, so:

> what is the durability of the files I store there?

You don't get the files distributed automatically. They're stored permanently only on clients which pinned them. (Either via user action, or because it's a storage service)

> How much can I store?

As much as you want. But you don't get mirrors by default.

> What is the availability of the files stored? What about latency?

Depends which nodes copy / cache your files.

[tommynicholas]

Exactly right. Especially the last two points are important: no mirrors by default and depends which nodes copy and cache your files. The big challenge ahead for them is how to get various implementations (Filecoin ideally) to make it simple to get dependable nodes to copy/cache/return/etc your files when needed. I'm very excited about it and think they will get there, just important to understand the present vs. future of what works and may work.