Nostr Web Client

Just trying to have a conversation. I would hope there is no malicious intent, but How do other clients manage to do it? There has to be other ways to reduce load on the client side for the download other than changing images and URLs? Legitimate questions.

miljan 6mo ago

AFAIK, other clients load original images directly from the source. I think some use CDNs. All this produces janky feeds if original files are large.

Note that we never change any URLs at Primal. Users' notes remain unchanged. This is very important. Our clients have additional logic to try to load smaller versions from our CDN, then fallback to the original URL. Once the user selects the image, we always show the original hi-res version.

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unknown 6mo ago

The URL in the feed is a different URL to what the user posted. Although it ultimately points to the users photo/server. It’s still an alternative URL until the post is interacted/clicked. Correct?

Am I understanding this correctly?

miljan 6mo ago

The url is the same as what the user posted. Our clients interpret that url by trying to load an optimized version from our cdn, then falling back to the original.