0.3.9 was just released, and it carried @mildred + @cryptix's patch to make the gateway writable.

I would like to make ipfs.io/api offer a writable portion, so that applications can be built against that as they would any other web service. This is mostly a crutch until the protocol is deployed in end user browsers + devices. But it likely will be useful for a long time as that way systems with HTTP support can easily add things to IPFS.

Concerns:

• how long to cache things (ideally should cache >10m, may be up to luck).
• should rate limit uploads (per IP addr) to prevent DOSing the system. (prob something like 100MB?)
• should have denylists in place

Once this is in place, things like IPFSBin and ipfs.pics could be just frontend webapps (+ pinning)