[TheIronYuppie]

One of the things we're well aware of is the huge opportunity/need for better gateways. What you're seeing is actually the gateway failing (not IPFS) so _technically_ ipfs is doing fine. NOT THAT THAT MATTERS IF YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO LOAD A WEB PAGE - WE KNOW! WE PROMISE! :)

Lots of folks are working on retrievability even as we speak (https://retrieval.market/). Stay tuned!

BTW, if you ever want your content directly, you can go here - https://ipfs.io/ipfs/<CID>. Brave also offers IPFS native integration not via gateways. Again, we are well aware this isn't enough! Coming soon...

Disclosure: I am co-director of Research Development at Protocol Labs.

[tarunmuvvala]

Asking as product enthusiast,I have seen the development of Filecoin over the years.

What are some great usecases for filecoin at the current state?

[easrng]

Using a local IPFS node doesn't usually work much better. Or at least it hasn't for me. Been a little while since I deleted IPFS desktop since I wasn't using it enough to justify its resource usage.

[cowtools]

I would reccomend just using go-ipfs with the browser addon.