Nostr Web Client

For me the front-and-center relay visibility helps solve the "Is this thing on?" UI problem. (Someone else came up with that term, I stole it.) As you post you see the note hit the relays one by one, it's confidence boosting. Also shows errors when it doesn't hit a relay, you can check why.

Also you see up top which of your relays are online. Sometimes if nothing's happening on refresh I'll glance up, it shows 0/4 relays, I move my VPN to another location, then all 4 come online one by one. (VPN issues can mean other websites work fine but most of your Nostr relays are offline, making you always unsure of the online status.) Things like that.

And it just helps you feel the pulse of Nostr, like you start to understand intuitively what it's all about.

Plus I'll sometimes hover over the relays of other people's notes just cause I'm curious. Like your note, I'll have a look at say to myself "oh okay, using their own relay, cool".

Cesar Dias 11mo ago

Totally agree on this, I ended up implementing these features mainly for my self at first while developing, I am doing my best to expose relay errors when publishing, which will be a thing when wot relays get more popular, I think there's a lot of other opportunities to expose "is this thing on" for users in a nicer ux, I have some ideas about it, especially for outbox stuff

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Garbage nsec 11mo ago

Cool, curious to see how it developers.

Also are the labels for inbox/outbox backwards here? It seems outbox relays are labelled "these are the relays you are reading from" and inbox are labelled "the ones you are writing to". Which seems reversed. Unless I'm parsing the UI wrong, or maybe it's my understanding of outbox terms that's reversed?

Cesar Dias 11mo ago

Good catch, I mess up few things, gonna get it fixed now, should be easy