[StavrosK]

You are correct, the end user experience has improved tremendously, I tried the desktop bundle the other day and it was indeed very easy to get started with.

> pinning services like Infura, Temporal, and Pinata have helped abstract some of those challenges

I wonder if you omitted Eternum on purpose :P

(For context, I created and run Eternum, and that experience is mostly where my opinion of IPFS comes from.)

[momack2]

Gotcha! Thank you! Running a pinning service definitely still has rough edges =/ but I know the Infura team recently open sourced some of the tooling they built to make it a bit easier: https://blog.infura.io/new-tools-for-running-ipfs-nodes-196d.... Might help others who are self hosting a large chunk of data on a persistent node too...

If you ever want to chat about how we can make pinning services on IPFS easier to run, would love to chat! I know cluster has been researching how to improve "IPFS for enterprise" usage and would really appreciate the user feedback!

[StavrosK]

Ah, thanks for that link, that would have come in handy a few weeks ago when I migrated the node to a new server.

I would love to chat. My #1 request is to make pinning asynchronous, and generally improve pinning performance. I think that's most of my frustration, followed by slow DHT resolves, followed by large resource usage by the node.