Pinning services are nice, but the idea of pinning services is a bit antithetical to the basic philosophy of p2p. If the only way to make something available is

Pinning services are nice, but the idea of pinning services is a bit antithetical to the basic philosophy of p2p. If the only way to make something available is e.g. putting something on pinata, I might as well put it on S3. The basic problem is that the DHT is currently not working, and IPFS is using the DHT in a very demanding way compared to, say, bittorrent or DAT. I know that there are some fixes in the works, but the next releases really need to solve the DHT problem, otherwise no amount of usability improvements is going to matter...