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Now since this concerns perhaps my biggest personal failure of 2025, the topic is a bit of an open wound for me, and I do understand your position as ''zapcooking'' in all of this....but ( 😅 ):

The fact clients were sort of forced to include special behaviors on an existing kind, like primal actively filtering, is the crux here. A recipe kind could/would be a nice first example of ''partial kind rendering'', something i don't think we really have thus far. i.e. a ''general'' client like primal could half-ass the recipe implementation, only showing the bare minimum and pointing their users in the direction of zapcooking for a better/more complete experience. It would be a win-win where Primal only spends minimal time on implementing the kind such that their users don't experience broken references in their feed while browsing primal irt something Primal generally have no interest in putting much effort in anyway, whilst it would give zapcooking (and other potential recipe apps) room to shine in terms of features. Because as it stands, Primal spend that time anyway, in a way that sets a bad precedent (not their fault) for the ecosystem as a whole. Anyway, this whole notion should, in theory atleast, ease the whole implementation lobby process.

Hope you had a good talk with nostr:npub1ehhfg09mr8z34wz85ek46a6rww4f7c7jsujxhdvmpqnl5hnrwsqq2szjqv about it?

Il retreat from the discussion now, ive kind of spend my credits to weigh in anyway, so il just wish everyone a happy new year :)

I get it, of course. The challenge is implementing this in a way that allows users to retain their existing work. Zap Cooking is completely self funded and has never received grant money, so you can imagine that a solution which creates a strong disincentive to start “new” while removing current interoperability is not optimal.

Users have also come to value that interoperability, especially with tools like npub.pro, and breaking that would be a disservice to them as well. I remain open minded and haven’t dismissed the idea entirely, and have come around to it more recently. I’ve put real time, money and effort into this project over the past few years, so these important considerations need to be weighed seriously.

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You should definitely Work on that...that would be nice 💯🙂

I don't know how many people have opted to self-host npub .pro, but if nostr .band is an indicator, anyone using the hosted service might already be at risk of losing what they've built up. Just another thought to consider in this.