Nostr Web Client

Okay Nostr peeps we need to talk. I know Ive been on here for like 5 minutes and Im already complaining but hear me out.

Id really like to publish my newsletter directly on Nostr. You dont need to worry about clicking an extra link, I dont need to worry about writing a stupid summary, everyone is happy.

But here‘s the problem. Iris shows link previews and organizes pics where they are placed in the text. Primal does the same, but doesnt show link previews. Damus shows link previews, but organizes pics in a carousel. If I post both pics and link previews, the content repeats and gets unnecessarily long. If I dont, everything is all over the place.

Can you guys like get together and have a standard for this or something? Because that would be pretty helpful. Thanks!

sachin 1y ago

Everything action you do on Nostr, posting, liking, replying can be called as 'events'. Each event has a 'kind' number which describes what type of event it is.

What you're looking for is long form content (kind: 30023)

The following are some clients that support this event kind:

Yakihonne: https://yakihonne.com/

Habla: https://habla.news/

Highlighter: https://highlighter.com/

Not all twitter-like clients we use display this event kind on your profile by default.

Amethyst does support it on Android though. You can always share a link on your preferred twitter-like client after publishing on the long-form client. The post will still be nostr-native and people can directly zap it as well.

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sachin 1y ago

Even 'edit post' is an event kind which isn't supported by most clients. You might see the edits I've made to the typos in the first paragraph on Amethyst but not on Primal.

L0la L33tz 1y ago

do you know what the reason is for twitter clones not supporting long form?

sachin 1y ago

It's just a design choice by devs of respective clients. It's up to them to choose the event kinds their clients display. And we can pick and choose according to our preferences.

47 1y ago

Damus does righr nostr:npub1zafcms4xya5ap9zr7xxr0jlrtrattwlesytn2s42030lzu0dwlzqpd26k5 ?.

I thought amethyst did too?

I guess the main point here tho, is that there is not a uniformed standard across clients. Many would see as a feature but this poses the question as to whether or not from a creators pov is a feature or a bug

elsat 1y ago

nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 supports reading long form notes. Damus does not support *writing* long form notes.

nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s and team are not convinced a short form note app can create an excellent long form note writing experience.

47 1y ago

I would tend to agree

DefiantDandelion 1y ago

Many do Nostur does, at least for reading them. There are too many kinds for a client to do them all. The ones that make sense for Twitter clones to adopt will likely be adopted. Some client developers are going to draw the line in different places.