Nostr Web Client

I think Open with is buried not too deep for me and you to find, people who'd benefit from nostr advertising won't care anyway.

I agree about Hodlbod's post, it would be nice if it was a better nostr advertising. How would we advertise though? Some banner at the top/bottom? A block before/after the post? A small "Powered by Nostr" link in the footer?

If this was your site/post, how would you advertise Nostr (aside from talking about it in the content)?

fiatjaf 10mo ago

What came to my mind:

- The author link at the top could go to Nostr, or at least have a Nostr link at the author profile page.

- The "share" section at the top should have a button to share on Nostr or something.

- Blogs used to have a "permalink" on posts, sometimes close to the timestamp. That could be a link to the same post on Nostr.

- The comments section could have something written in them that described them as comments coming from Nostr, as well as Nostr permalinks to any of them.

- The website homepage could have a link to the Nostr profile of the person, that I don't know where. At least at the very bottom, but hopefully also at the top, either at the topbar or at the actual main website header.

I guess one big problem is that "linking to Nostr" is not trivial, but it could be a link to nostr.band, njump.me or a list of clients like in the buried menu, or make it configurable by the author, I don't know.

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brugeman 10mo ago

Thanks for the ideas!

- author page doesn't have that link due to Ghost themes not supporting rich text in author's bio, so it's not trivial to inject the link, that's why it's not been done yet - but I think it's the most obvious place, so will check again

- share section is a particular theme's implementation, most themes don't have share buttons, share section in the menu (near open with) has Share -> Nostr

- timestamps etc are again formatted by Ghost theme engine, but will check maybe we could inject something at the post bottom, permalink sounds neutral enough to be mandatory - promising!

- comments coming from Nostr - great idea too! There's already ... menu near each comment with a link to njump, but that's buried. We'll be redesigning the comments section so will take this into account

- website isn't necessarily a one-man show and may have many contributors etc, but trying to come up with something in top navigation makes sense, will think on this.

We'll also be adding popup modals with author profiles for mentions (and maybe should do the same with Author links) which would be a nice space to promote Nostr.

fiatjaf 10mo ago

I didn't know this was all based on Ghost. Damn. OK, now I see how complicated this is.

brugeman 10mo ago

The only reason we could build it fast is by reusing open source theme engine and themes. People can also reuse their custom Ghost themes. But sometimes it does get in the way of achieving simple things.

brugeman 10mo ago

How about this fine-print under each post, maybe?