What Iāve been saying for a while is that we need a new one. There is no full alternative yet.
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Alternative to nostr.band for searching for older content? #asknostr GO!
CC: nostr:npub1aeh2zw4elewy5682lxc6xnlqzjnxksq303gwu2npfaxd49vmde6qcq4nwx saw you mentioning one in the last 24h and can't find that comment...
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Primal advanced search is excellent. But OP has Primal Derangement Syndrome and likes to cry about it.
Iām talking about one that isnāt tied to a specific client though, thatās what a new replacement for nostr.band would need to be. It can even be zap-gated, if the search result quality was worth paying for.
š¤·āāļø If I need to search the internet I go to Google. I donāt need to have Google replicated in every website. You donāt have to use Primal as your primary client to use it for search, but it also isnāt free. But weāre nostr, and as you alluded, we donāt complain about paying for what we use. $7/month for unlimited access to the best advanced search on Nostr. Not saying it couldnāt be more versatile by then allowing it to be integrated into other clients, but even if you only use Primal.net or their app as your dedicated nostr search engine, itās an excellent choice.
If it doesnāt work on desktop browsers, itās of very little use to me.
Primal works in desktop browsers thoughā¦ Not sure what youāre getting at, but what Iām saying is that it is in fact a good option for search on Nostr, perhaps even the only option at the moment. Iām not aware of other search providers on nostr right now, but if a better one comes along, whether from Primal or anyone else, it will be a good thing. Yakihonne recently added some decent filters for creating feeds, but I couldnāt get it to really work as a search and it didnāt reliably find the notes I used to test it. Itās an area where nostr has room for improvement, but itās kind of silly for people to ignore that there is an option for search, even it doesnāt check off all the boxes on your checklist.
Not a Primal hatoor, Iāve just never had a good experience with the desktop client. It seems like itās been abandoned.
Been working fine for me, but your experience is your experience. The github for their web app shows recent and regular updates so doesnāt seem to be abandoned at all.
My experience comes from doing a lot of searches for peoplesā first Nostr notes and had much more success finding them with a combination of nostr.band and advancednostrsearch than I did using Primal. I gave it a fair shot.
Also I just tried the Primal destkop search now and it complete froze my browser. So that really doesnāt bode well.
That's the one but yeah doesn't seem to have advanced search options similar to nostr.band. Thanks anyway!
Exactly what Iāve been saying.
Nos.lol has been decently reliable. I've been test benching a bunch of relays as I build out a client. For full completeness.
What we really need is a follower aggregator (if one exists, please advise). Followers are a harder client-side problem to solve than meets the eye.
Npub creation date too.
Thanks! I found what I was looking for.