Marcin Rataj

@hacdias how did you test? I've shut down IPFS node and run unrelated HTTP server on port 5001 via ```console $ npx serve -l 5001 -d ``` Then I started...

I think this is a bug: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/blob/e16b1e7374b0d614c4bd2416b7b75cd58f45d85e/src/webui/index.js#L143 @hacdias should be an easy fix, mind taking a look?

Our metrics have to remain opt-in, so nothing should be emitted.

@sintoniza-c it did not work, mind manually attaching it to a comment at https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/issues/2217 ?

@sintoniza-c are you able to check what is the value of [`Routing.Type`](https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/docs/config.md#routingtype) in your `.ipfs/config` file ? Try changing it to `dht` and let us know if it helped?

Seems to be a duplicate of https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/issues/2216 @mehdy-ghm sounds like you already have something running on port 5001. This looks like a regression on Windows, since the Desktop app should...

@kageroki please provide more information: - what were you doing when the error occurred? - what are you trying to accomplish by running it via PowerShell? or was it done...

> I would reduce the number of options to only either: open in browser, open in ipfs desktop, and then let ipfs-companion/browser handle the rest, since they will override whichever...

I don't feel super strong about this, my default mindset is to avoid adding niche features that increase maintenance cost, but this is small enough that it should be fine.

Initial evaluation happens in https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/pull/1856