NIP-23 long-form content is an interesting development so i decided to dip my #footstr in the water and try it out. These are the clients where you can easily read and write long-form posts that I am currently aware of:
habla.news
flycat.club
blogstack.io
You can also read NIP-23 events on Amethyst and will soon be able to on Damus as well.
I went to hable.news first since NIP-23 content is specifically why the site exists and was the first one that I heard of. By this time I had already gotten the text ready so that was a simple copy-paste. After uploading images to nostr.build I finangled my text and images roughly how I wanted them using the built-in markup tools, added a summery, some tags, a header image and I was ready to go. Pretty simple, nice interface. When I clicked publish I got an error. I tried to save. Same error. Came back a couple hours later only to get the same result. No bueno.
So I went to flycat.club next. They seem to be a more general purpose client that I hadn't previously tried but they also have integration for NIP-23 events. Went through basically the same process, with a slightly different interface. Hit Publish. It acted like it worked but when I looked for the published event it wasn't there. Checked differnt clients—still nothing.
Lastly I tried blogstack.io. Again, very similar process and interfacce but this time when I hit publish it actually worked. I have no idea why it didn't work on the other clients but third time was the charm.
My little story was compiled with the assistance of ChatGPT and Adobe's Firefly text-to-image generator. You can read it on any of the clients previously mentioned, and I recomend trying them all, but I prefer habla.news mostly because of dark mode. Check it out and let me know what you think. It was created as a fun experiment but if anyone finds it interesting maybe I'll do another episode.
