feat: pin files

[hacdias]

Some people (such as @flyingzumwalt and @mishmosh), would like to pin files. A great feature for later 😄

[daviddias]

I would love it too! :D The use case I was thinking was for PeerPad peer-base/peer-pad#90

[daviddias]

@hacdias can you prioritize this feature?

[hacdias]

Pin files like the way pinbot pins files? Or just have a different panel where we can pin the files to have their links handy?

[flyingzumwalt]

Oh wow -- are you thinking of having station run pinning services, so I could just run station on a machine if I want to have a pinning service, and then have tools like peerpad use that as my preferred pinning service? That would be immediately useful. @hacdias read the related discussions in peer-base/peer-pad#90 if you haven't yet. That should help you get a sense of the functionality we want.

Though, now that I think of it, we should be careful to make sure all the related functionality (pinning service, configuration, etc) is packaged as something that you can run without station -- station should just be the installer and the UI for people who don't want to use the command line.

But still. I'm so excited to see this feature happen!

@hacdias I would be delighted to spend some time with you around designing this feature in order to get the user experience right. Timing is a bit tight though -- I'll be on vacation 14-21 December.

[daviddias]

are you thinking of having station run pinning services, so I could just run station on a machine if I want to have a pinning service, and then have tools like peerpad use that as my preferred pinning service? That would be immediately useful

Exactly that! I knew you would like this feature, @flyingzumwalt :)

Pin files like the way pinbot pins files? Or just have a different panel where we can pin the files to have their links handy?

@hacdias that would be the ideal first version, a pane where users could pin hashes and add labels to them.

[hacdias]

Okay, so we'll start by doing a pane where users can pin hashes and add labels to them. Will try to start this tomorrow (or Thursday maximum) and will open a PR. After the first 'version' is completed, we can move to a pinning service.

@flyingzumwalt all help is welcome 😄

[hacdias]

Done people! Check it out!

[daviddias]

@hacdias gifs or it didn't happen :)

[hacdias]

@diasdavid

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Animation while pinning

[daviddias]

@hacdias wanna add as gifs all the features that Station has to the README and close this issue?

[ghost]

Great! Suggestion: let's make these fully-qualified paths, a la /ipfs/QmFoo

[hacdias]

Will do that @lgierth @diasdavid. I'll close this afterwards.

[whyrusleeping]

Well now we need to add pin annotations support to the api, this looks really nice :)

[hacdias]

@diasdavid @lgierth @whyrusleeping Look at this beautiful brand new README full of gifs: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-station/blob/master/README.md

[jbenet]

Looking great! :)

[daviddias]

@hacdias love it!!