I have been a long-time user and promoter of #Amethyst—since way back in the day when we got daily updates.
But lately, Amethyst isn't immediately (or sometimes ever) showing close to accurate likes/zaps, follower status takes forever to load on profiles, and post data on profiles propagates incredibly slowly. These issues are really impacting the experience.
Time to give #YakiHonne another go.
Let us know if you have any thoughts about Yakihonne. Your feedback is very appreciated.
Thank you. Will do. At first blush the font sizes start too small, and they scale a bit awkwardly on a Pixel 9 Pro XL. Let me have some time with it. :)
You can always adjust the font size in Settings->Appearance. Enjoy 🙏
Thank you! The YakiHonne default profile font size on my Pixel 9 Pro XL is clearly too small. I'll adjust the setting and see if the font size scaling becomes more uniform. :) 🙏🏻
#Amethyst profile font:
#YakiHonne profile font 
Did they do a big update recently? I see a lot of people using them again all of a sudden.
They did. Not sure how I feel about the UI/UX though. Amethyst is a beautifully proportionate app that used to work brilliantly. I need more time with YakiHonne. Care to give it a go with me and share your feedback?
Yeah, I can install it again. It's been a minute since I've used any of their apps.
When wilk you integrate in-app Tor routing ?
For me its the notification section thats unreliable and indeed profiles can take a while to load. I do like amethyst and I continue using it, but I also use nostrudel on my phone as well as that one loads well.
It gets better if you disable tor for inbox/outbox relays but I only recommend doing this if you are on a vpn
Thank you. Understood. Unfortunately, it wasn't like that throughout the year-long no update cycle, until the new versions were released.
nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9u2mk7fe this seems like part of the problem I was having with blocked npubs and notifications. I also notice slow loading of the blocked status.
Yeah, we now hit people's outbox relays via Tor by default. So, if they don't have outbox setup it takes longer. Sometimes Tor also takes longer.
Either way, we are taking a look at this to improve. We cant go back to the centralized BS we had before.
Fair enough. I appreciate the dedication to decentralization.
I hear you, and I hope so. I have outbox setup. Usability has clearly been sacrificed with recent updates, and that's definitely not what #Nostr needs right now.
#Amethyst is still the best #Nostr client. There really is no second best. If it fails, it won't be good for Nostr.
Its not about your outbox setting, but each person you visit. We also significantly reduced the amount of posts we load on the profile screen. That could be it as well.
Decentralization is Nostr’s greatest strength and weakness 😅 I think if we want hypernostrization it will come with a caveat of it being harder and less accurate, data-wise, than legacy social media. We’ll see if normies can adapt or not.
Though when one doesn't even see whether they have already liked or zapped a post the day after, it becomes a significant UX issue, and that's no bueno for new or current users. Love #Amethyst. I'm sure nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9u2mk7fe will make it happen. He's got a good record of that. He listens. :)
It actually worked performantly, for me, but I somehow couldn't control the relays used to build the main feed. I only wanted to look at three, but I kept seeing notes from all over.
Couldn't figure it out.
Have you explored Lokinet?
I find myself regularly switching to Yakihonne when Amethyst inevitably fails me with a zap error or dastardly poor search results, especially since this outbox update seems to make things real inconsistent. Dammit if it's not still the first one I open.
real cypherpunks use Voyage
I’m on Damus can you ever see my note? Who knows.
