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Is Nostr Nests the same as Corny chat? Why are there 2 different things? /confused
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Nice and Kind Vic 1y ago

I operate Corny Chat.

Like Nostr Nests, its built atop Jam Systems as an Audio spaces like Club House or Twitter spaces. Unlike Nostr Nests, the code is open source, available to anyone to build on.

Having grown frustrated with the delays of the nostr nests rewrite plans last year, I offered bounties for both Jam and Jitsi to get a nostr enabled audio space started. Corny Chat was using that codebase when first setup in December 2023. Various microfeatures have been tested as I try to learn how React and Typescript and such works together.

Some key improvements so far

- Rooms can be customized with colir themes, graphics, emojis, links

- Users can login with NIP-07 extension with a signing to prove ownership, and pulls in profile data to set name and image

- Anon users get a randomly assigned corn theme avatar and name.

- Users can zap others that have lightning address setup from within the app.

- Users can do adhoc voting via thumbs up/down indicators, in addition to raised hand and other sticky labels.

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Nice and Kind Vic 1y ago

And FWIW, I still have a bounty out for nostr nests and look forward to that coming along to help enrich the space. Coopetition is good.

Some of the changes i put in corny chat may not stick around, or be refined again as its determined what works and what doesnt. Lessons learned in this rapid emvironment can be applied to a more robust long term solution

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AU9913 1y ago

All I need is a way to login on mobile without providing my nsec (amber?) and then I would pay for a premium account.

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Derek Ross 1y ago

The current version of Nostr Nests isn't open source because Semisol doesn't want to open source his indexer verification code. I asked dozens of times over the past year.

Thankfully, the rewrite of Nostr Nests will be fully open source. The way I've always wanted.

Unlike Corny Chat, Nostr Nests will be a full fledged Nostr client that's built from the ground up to be Nostr native. 🔥🔥🔥

This is truly important. It won't be based on spaghetti code from a third party vendor, with bolt ons or add-ons trying to bring Nostr additions to software built without Nostr in mind.

Yes, Nests took a long time to find a proper developer to bring my vision forward, but the wait will be worth it. Kieran is an amazing developer. Karnage is incredibly talented designer.

It's all coming together so nicely. I'm excited for everyone to use Nests themselves but also for people to run their own instances themselves to help decentralize the audio backend of Nests across many server instances. Another major difference.

So, get your sats ready. The bounties will need paid soon.

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ben 1y ago

good on you and thanks for building in the open. competition is good.