Hi @nax, I would suggest running Ceramic and IPFS persistently somewhere not on local machine(s).
Running a node locally can work but you have to make sure it consistently stays up, otherwise fetching commits from your local IPFS can fail, and that causes them not to get anchored because unless the commit can be loaded, its signature can’t be verified.
Once this has happened a few times, your stream could get stuck in a bad state because updates never got anchored, and the CACAO expiration has passed for an earlier commit that failed to get anchored.