Warning: this is a polemical note.

I understand that it is not easy to make a client for Nostr.

Too many variables, too many NIPs, too much everything.

So far I've tried everything:

from mobile clients

to desktop ones

to browser clients

to factotum ones

to specific ones...

but they all have one thing in common: they never work well.

They are all full of merits, but equally full of flaws.

I'm constantly jumping from one to another in hopes of finding the ultimate one, but still nothing.

The only one that for obvious reasons I have not been able to try is Damus, because I don't have an iPhone.

Tomorrow marks one year that I've been here, and I was honestly hoping in all this time to find a client to recommend to anyone I talk to about Nostr, but it's impossible.

Primal is beautiful, but after a year it still has no internal translator whatsoever.

Amethyst is the one I use the most ever, but its interface is confusing in so many ways and some features are almost hidden, when something new comes out and I go to read the changelog I get a headache.

Snort and Iris, they are great, but the web app version is unmanageable.

Coracle has so many nice features, but like Amethyst it has a confusing interface.

Satellite.earth ditto.

Then there is the Swiss army knife of nostr clients, namely Nostrudel. Also super great with dozens of features, but it takes an engineering degree to use it and the interface is confusing and unattractive.

I know, developers do what they can, many do it practically for free, but there is no use complaining that there are few of us on Nostr, that no one comes here.

Nostr is still a place for geeks, for normies it's not time yet.

Sorry to vent, it's a gray day, that's the way it is today.

I love you all.