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jonb 2y ago

I've been thinking through the design of sign-in modals for Nostr clients.

Two challenges/opportunities stand out to me:

1. I'm not sure if extension-based auth should be automatic. I wonder how often a person might want to browse unauthenticated or log in with an acct not associated with their extension.

2. Compared to the legacy flow, I think there's a greater need to provide clear help during sign-in. The auth piece is one of the main differences between what users are used to and the Nostr flow, so it seems appropriate to offer a clearly labeled lifeline.

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HoloKat 2y ago

Couple things we can do that I’ve proposed several times:

1. Legacy labels next to new ones eg. (username = npub). Then rename username in app.

2. Remove key gen entirely and generate it for them. It’ll be a slight surprise in how that works but nothing that can’t be explained.

I’ve provided designs and more details on each concept. Dunno if anyone listened.

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jonb 2y ago

I'm fairly new to the space, so I'm likely behind on the conversation. I'd like to see those designs if you could share a link or a pic.

I was mostly comparing modals from snort, amethyst, and astral when ideating on this version. And, so far I haven't seen username used as a label.

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HoloKat 2y ago

Ya will get for you. No, nobody has used the term username. I wrote a note on all of this a while ago; not sure how to dig it up short of scrolling forever.

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PABLOF7z 2y ago

I think it’s not only incorrect, it’s also confusing. “Why is my username so weird? And why was it chosen for me? How do I change it to something sane?”

npub is a username strictly only in the sense of being a unique identifier, but is neither the value people use to locate/refer to users nor is it human readable.

Eventually npubs will probably be abstracted away.

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Sherry 2y ago

Jesus you are in Miami and still working?!!!

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PABLOF7z 2y ago

😂😂😂

Busted

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Sherry 2y ago

Immediately😆

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HoloKat 2y ago

I’m not sure if it is confusing. I guess one way would be to actually test on someone.

Give helper labels that assist in understanding without changing the definition of an npub;

And as a secondary experiment remove the signup step entirely and just generate keys for user, then explain what just happened.

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Blake 2y ago

Maybe ‘shareable identifier’ for npub.

And optionally if they want a Nostr Username, let them setup a NIP-05. It’s literally just a username in all aspects (I think) - login, sharing, search, comparing accounts if identical other info, auto-complete, etc. ability to setup a username later.

And then secret/recovery/master private key (or similar) for nsec. Ideally nsec backup is an in-app action after initial setup - “keep your account safe, sync to cloud, save to password manager, write down seed words”. Setup 100% complete.