We are making changes to how the sponsored ipfs.io and dweb.link gateways work. Rather than acting as central servers that fetch content on your behalf, they’ll hand the browser a service worker that makes direct peer-to-peer connection to fetch the content and verify it locally. The phased rollout…

A question for the teams this hits hardest: backends and apps that fetch JSON or images through these gateways (NFT metadata, indexers, link previews). We self-host, so I ask for them, not for us. A backend fetch or an img tag cannot run a service worker, so inbrowser.link does not help them. And i…

radio silence gg :grimacing: my chain CID crawler is getting errors on links like https://gatewaychanges.ipfs.io/#/ipfs/bafkreie7q3iidccmpvszul7kudcvvuavuo7u6gzlbobczuk5nqk3b4akba https://gatewaychanges.ipfs.io says: Starting September 1st the gateway steps aside a little each hour, currently a…

[image] fleck: Switch to fetching IPFS content directly · IPFS What is this? I am only worried / need stats about dweb link and ipfs io, I’ve never hard about gatewaychanges ipfs io gateway. Is this a former ipfs io gateway? Are these stats also applies to dweb? So many questions.

There’s no ipfs .io or dweb.link anymore. Protocol Labs shut down the real HTTP gateways because they ran out of the >$200 million ICO funds: [image] What happens to IPFS maintenance and public infrastructure after September 30? News Shipyard announced it is …

Changes to ipfs.io and dweb.link gateways

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There’s no ipfs .io or dweb.link anymore.

Protocol Labs shut down the real HTTP gateways because they ran out of the >$200 million ICO funds:

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IPFS is moving beyond the sponsored gateways \| IPFS Blog & News Blog Posts	3	309	October 21, 2026
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Ever since running a local IPFS node, my web browser has been blocked and returned 429 whenever i try to get content from https://ipfs.io Help	9	1015	August 2, 2021
Dweb.link now redirects to inbrowser.link Help	4	211	May 21, 2026

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