Am I only the one who feels like nostr development slowed down? I remember we used to be excited every week for the new updates with new features and now seems like it’s faded 🤷♂️
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It can only do that for a while. There’s adoption and development going on. Let’s hope a new surge comes.
The citadel dispatch podcast on nostr development made it sound like good things are still happening
I think it has a lot, and developers are not sharing as much of what they are working on, so it feels like things are crawling.
This is pretty typical of any new project - and in our case protocol - you get super excited, build build build.. then realize you have all these bugs that take a lot of time figuring out and you struggle along the way wondering why bother. The initial hype wore off, we're now in the 99% people stop here phase. I think we'll see a lot of projects kind of fade out of existence in disrepair. Some will consolidate with others. People will join to work on fewer projects and things will really take time.
All of this would have been less pronounced if we had a lot more users, more revenue coming in because that is developer fuel - to see that the thing they are making is working.
Alright ! Seems like Nostr Shadowy Super Coders are working on some big releases.
P.S. personally I liked that some new features were released more often event if it were small vs something big after like 6 months. As I mentioned nostr isn’t bitcoin and devs should be experimenting with adding news things cause it’s can’t harm. Or if it will they will get a bad feedback and remove it. Just my 5 cents after 4 IPA 🍺😂
I don't think this is it. It's harder to make big splashy releases when you have 20k+ lines of code to maintain than when you have <1000. Stuff like reactions used to be a huge deal and get lots of attention. Now, when you do something like release private encrypted groups (100x harder) people hardly notice.
I don't say this with any kind of annoyance, I'm very happy to continue to grind with little to no recognition. Hype is fun, but it's not what any of us came here for.
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Only one way to find out I suppose. Wait a bit longer and see who sticks around.
I've seen this thousands of times though. Literally. New project, high energy, hype hype hype... then the slow agonizing grind and eventual death. Not saying the death part will apply here, because some people have funding and bitcoiners are generally built different (long time preference), but in the rest of builder space this is what happens. Like I said, this is all natural because people generally don't have good ideas and build something nobody wants. If everyone succeeded, we'd have thousands of new businesses ever year.
We don’t have nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk to give us the daily updates