Nostr Web Client

I think Nostr needs more users, not more microblogging features.

The biggest problem I see right now is the first use experience. The first 15 minutes you use a product determines whether you continue using it or likely drop it forever.

When you just start #Nostr & you wanna see anything, all Relays have to be queried first, etc. At first, everything is empty.

Happens as well, when you delete the cache of the #Nostr app you use.

People are so used to instant access, it's probably a pretty big blocker to wait for Relays to finish loading the feed, especially in Global, basically like viewing an image in Internet Explorer during 2003.

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Lois 🧘‍♀️🫖✨🙏 2y ago

Could you help mange expectations by a pop up message that says "please hold while we're connecting relays and syncing data.... after that you can connect a wallet, make a post with #??? whatever... and start making friends....".

Something to pass the time and educate the user as to what's going on.

Franz 2y ago

I don't get this comment. Connecting to the relay, setting up a subscription, and receiving data takes ~1s. Sounds like a client problem.

Akito 2y ago 💬 1

Nope, not a client problem. It depends on how you connect to the services, through which network & how many relays allow your requests to go through etc.

If it works well for you, you maybe don't have a lot of different connections & the servers are more available to you. I don't know.

Akito 2y ago

Or I mean, you could define this as a "client problem", but if you do that, then nothing will ever get fixed, because every client configuration will be a "client problem" as in "not my problem" and the actual issue will persist.

Not every "client problem" is not "not your problem".

Franz 2y ago

Sorry, notifications are still shit ;)

You're right for sure. I'm on a comfy European fibre connection righ now, so everything is butter-smooth. But even on a shitty 3G connection, it should be possible to request / download a few KB in 1-2 seconds (even with a ping of 500ms).

So unless you government is restricting access, either your client doesn't have enough, or good enough servers, or there's another issue in the client - caching or whatever.