Nostr Web Client

UX is not fixed by starting over from scratch. It takes many years to develop all the basics needed to make good software. The protocol has problems and a successor will come someday, but we have real technical momentum we shouldn't just dump.

Garbage nsec 1mo ago 💬 2

Much of the work can absolutely be ported over. If you remember Mozilla Suite, it became this bloated application that combined a browser, email client, and other junk. Some devs forked it and started the Firefox project as an experiment to create a leaner, faster, standalone browser alternative. That worked well enough. Many such cases. It can be the way.

What we have now is not what people want. It just isn't. Not only normies but most people. Even Ross Ulbricht left to go back to posting couple pics on Instagram.

I'm not saying there isn't some Deux ex machina waiting in the wings, but the numbers do not look good no matter how you frame them.

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hodlbod 1mo ago 💬 1

I agree, not because of the numbers, but because there are several unsolved or poorly solved technical problems. But what is great about nostr can be preserved in a fork/port if the protocol designers understand how to sort out what is good from the garbage.

Garbage nsec 1mo ago

Agree. The bigger unsolved technical problems are basically Fields Medal calibre. It’s very possible to take what’s good (which is a lot, and which is obvious) and leave the Fields Medal stuff behind.

Offbeat Neglected Prawn 1mo ago 💬 1

And now Firefox is bigger and more bloated than the suite now called Seamonkey.

Garbage nsec 1mo ago 💬 1

SeaMonkey, are you kidding me? SeaMonkey is used by like 17 Simpsons comic book store guy bearded weirdos who get a kick out of 1990s retro interfaces.

If the end-game for Nostr is to preserve the messy origins of what we have now and then chug along in a SeaMonkey-esque way, beloved by every one of its 17 loyal users, then we may as well all just give up now.