Subnostr

#Nostr holds no restrospectives, since it's not a coherent project team.

So bad concepts just keep getting doubled-down on and papered-over until someone is willing to upend and rethink everything. Why anyone thinks the person who is most driven to upend everything always needs to be one of the persons who established to original concept, is beyond me. If anything, newcomers have more reason to change things, as they want to "do it right, the first time" and not adopt other people's technical debt.

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Silberengel 1y ago

The NIPs are now full of technical debt. It doesn't make any sense to just program that all into your new client because then your new client is just another old client.

You may need to step back, close your eyes, and think about "How would I solve for this, if there were not yet a solution available?"

Maybe you would solve for it the same way, but probably not, as you are not living in 2020. You are living in 2024 and you have more information and a different environment and use case, than the people making the original decision.

You are not those people. You have your own ideas. Newer ideas are not always worse ideas.

Exodia38 1y ago

Maybe these phenomena that you're describing are people that have fears. People focus too much on specific problems and block their minds, which makes their problems even harder for them to deal with.

Maybe the focus must be directed to recognize which are the real constraints of Nostr and start from there

Silberengel 1y ago

Well, I mean, their fears are founded. Like, the fear of having to completely rewrite half of their sprawling applications, without everything breaking.

Exodia38 1y ago

Well, if I (or any person) make mistakes and mess up badly, I just take responsibility of the consequences of my acts. It's pretty simple. Instead, I can guarantee you that fear leads to nowhere

That's how basic science works. It can sound cruel, but it has always been like that. I don't make the rules

Silberengel 1y ago

Most of them missed the opportunity to start full test coverage, from the beginning. So, now they can't change anything, without the whole thing blowing up.