Nostr Web Client

Running Primal 0.28.2 (1) on iOS. A quick review.

The Good: The design is gorgeous. Everything is smooth and loads fast. Animations look great. The visual settings for size and post appearance are appreciated and extremely easy to use. Also a huge fan of feeds – this is how social media should be and I can't wait until this concept is expanded to custom algorithms that are cross-client compatible. Alby and Mutiny wallet integration both seem smooth. It has not crashed in any way in the limited time I've been playing with it.

The Bad: Still missing relay controls, but I have a feeling that's on the 'coming soon' pile. Also annoying, but not deal-breaking, is an inability to see who has liked/zapped a post, lists of follows/followers on profiles, the app cutting off music playing in other apps, and a few other small cosmetic things like pfps not linking and NIP-05 appearance.

The Ugly: The only thing ugly about Primal right now is the controversy around it. Algorithms are coming to nostr, whether you like it or not. Shadowbanning wasn't happening, but it might soon. Primal's development of custom feeds, well before any other client, is the exact right approach.

I am impressed and excited to see what continues to come from nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr and the nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg team. Primal took over as my primary desktop client a while ago and this release shows they want more people to say that on iOS as well.

miljan 2y ago

Thanks very much for that thorough review sir! 🫡

I am glad you are enjoying the app. Everything you listed in the "good" section is music to our ears, because that's exactly what we've been focusing on. It's extremely important to get the feed consumption UX nailed, so we will continue to improve on this in future releases.

All feature requests in your "bad" section are already on our to-do list. We'll iterate quickly in the coming weeks, stay tuned.

As for the "ugly" section, I agree with your points. Our approach is to make all the algos optional and open. We'd be curious to get ideas and feedback from our users on how this can be further improved.

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Discussion

Evan 2y ago

Thrilled to hear all of that! Can't wait to see what's to come. "Feeds" have been lacking on Nostr for too long and it's one of the (few) things Bluesky has gotten very right.

₿itcoin 2y ago

Hi i had this idea: please react so I can see if you have seen it, i sometimes lose my own messages due to problems with relay connections...

Anyway, quick thing is:

Merging reposts into one indicator that has a counter counting all reposts that you havent read yet. So this is decreasing when u scroll. All new reposts will be ignored because uve already seen it.

Nobody implemented this yet, even though I think its extremely simple...