What if we had a different kind for dms where it’s called a subscription. When you click subscribe, you get messages into a subscriptions tab. Any time someone publishes something new, you get a “dm” in a subscription tab. That can then be styled to show content previews or something.
Just a thought.
I like it. Sounds like the equivalent of the notification bell on X
It could go into dms too but I just thought it would be cleaner to have a subscription tab.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just filter my follows into lists to scroll through their recent notes?
Sounds like many steps vs clicking subscribe. And you’d have to remember to do that
Yah but what’s the difference between “subscribe” and “follow” wouldn’t you wind up with the same issue in the end, a feed too active to follow along…
Well, there's some people's notes I don't want to miss. I've been looking for something to help with that
Yah like a list of “favorites” is what I want.
And a list of artists, and a list of developers, and a list of moonbois, and a list of whatever else so I can easily click the list I want to catch up on and scroll through their posts
That’s not what I want. I just need a way to notify people of new content without them having to check manually. It’s a subscription in fiat world.
They still have to manually check their DMs, or subscription tab, and if they have 100 subscriptions, and yours was yesterday, and 50 others were today, you didn’t solve your problem.
That’s exactly how email works… 😆
Idk it sounds more like the notification bell on X and YouTube
You know the technical of nostr better than I; if that's easier to implement than def people would like it.
Maybe the sub button automatically follows that person too?
You are basically describing a list (NIP-51), unfortunately, not many support them well (a real good support is Gossip's, whiuch also includes an optional privacy mode so contacts don't leak). Coracle with the new custom feeds will revolutionize this area.
Does a person on a list notify me when they published something on Habla?
It's not the person, it's the client supporting list/feeds that discover the new content ad so alert you.
With custom feeds you can filter which type of content, e.g. see only long format notes.
Feed notifications would be interesting. Maybe an extra `notify` tag which supporting clients can pick up and alert the user to? I actually really like that.
I was thinking of using the usual dot next to the name for a simple and not too intrusive first notice:
Or are you thinking about something more prominent, like a popup/toast?
The dot is an interesting idea, I don't know if I want to load the universe in the background. I was thinking maybe a card in notifications, but your idea is better
I want a "favorites" list/tab.
Good thought! I would like to build a digest feature for nostr:npub12pj5g0370uz3f49flpz8scs85p8s9c7l6ueutjhkyc3jnggrlafsmmljva
On Nostur im using the subscription feature to get new notes/notifications from certain npubs
