# MeshCore 78 Hacker News commenters recommended MeshCore and 41 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Recommended for reliable, long-range LoRa text messaging that works well at scale; the most common caveat is limited adoption outside a few established areas. ## Why people recommend it - More reliable than Meshtastic (5 comments): "Most people with solid mesh networks seem to be moving from Meshtastic to MeshCore and having improved experiences with it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703837)) "It's newer and tends to have been adopted by communities that have run into issues with large Meshtastic networks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688884)) "Meshcore uses a different strategy than Meshtastic, which enables Meshcore to work more reliably." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543848)) - Long range and reach (6 comments): "Meshcore, on the other hand, is far less popular but still has a nice amount of repeaters and it's, conversely, very good." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075457)) "When I first got on meshcore here NJ i immediately connected with my closest neighbor repeater 20 miles away" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304317)) "here in Europe with 868 MHz MeshCore you get good singnal from a repeater through one or two city blocks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306208)) - Active communities and coverage (6 comments): "I just switched over to the mesh core version of psmesh and instantly I was able to get chats from folk across the state" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063051)) "Meshcore on the other hand has people actually having conversations, networks that span whole states" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064811)) "Wow, the coverage is nuts. I should hop on, looks like I've got solid coverage in my area." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879737)) - Works well at scale (3 comments): "MeshCore performs much better than Meshtastic at scale and as an emplaced deployment." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922204)) "Meshcore seems like a much better choice for messaging in dense-node environments." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195190)) "the protocol works well, scaling up to thousands of nodes across hundreds of miles" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879684)) ## What people warn about - Vibe-coded code quality concerns (3 comments): "I experienced a functional core in meshcore surrounded by a lot of vibe coded slop" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890648)) "A communication protocol can't be vibe coded, how do you enforce security if the person is unable to understand what the tool created?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890312)) "It's ridiculous to me that they're concerned about the trustworthiness of AI-generated code when their code quality is so low." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47880324)) - Spam, flooding and jamming vulnerability (3 comments): "since MT + MC both flood the shared channels to push messages across intermediary nodes, they pretty much self-DDoS by doing...nothing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009928)) "the networks are extremely low bandwidth and quite unreliable and are vulnerable to jamming or spam/overload" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840598)) "the Hamburg Meshcore mesh has some dumbass spammer spamming far-right youtube videos in the public channel" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302854)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Meshtastic](https://hackerapproved.com/p/meshtastic.md): 129 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "MeshCore", https://hackerapproved.com/p/meshcore/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).