The Nostur Report: 2023 in review

along with some of my favorite bookmarks and thank you’s.

On Jan 4th I clicked on this button and it would eventually become Nostur:

Few know it started because scrolling in Damus was buggy (back then):
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After some progress I made my announcement and first post on nostr: nostr:note1tcs2aj6m8hf3fxgp3k83200n3mw7ywnmm9wnmvram96awu45fmrshq2hcy

I had been quietly posting updates into an empty void for some time until I got a repost from nostr:npub1hw0s9g0u0jpcfezfvcyn86k0k9v0m3x8uj5cr7va478lksysyj6qzl59hh

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then Jack mentioned Nostur once, but then never again 🥲 nostr:note13ytg2xe66a8wn5087gxhc7j230eq3p5c02g6eprux45xqfnkescqwruye0

still grateful for indirectly supporting through nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f, thank you nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m

Pablo said Nostur is fantastic and Nostur started to gain some traction
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This was at the time when Nostur was still very buggy, so thanks for the encouragement nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft

back then some of the UX was so bad that if you die on Nostur you die in real life: nostr:note1y37wrgev9g5r2mh6y6l2qd6v7mcpr5pdlz3s8q6j7y5p379s6hvq37euy4

We saw Apple ban zaps and I wrote a Nostur mission

nostr:note1dd3zsnd8jpk4l5jrxpv2606vd3ffkv2gfw9j5wgykxv7shlpv8aqrq8zsv

nostr:npub1xlam7ac8uu9g5au8ukcmwhe7jal8p2457swa77eupuuv4mwcwh2qgjgrrk was the first to discover some sly roundabout way for zaps and share it nostr:note1fq2ee4gygz72hhvzuncst2hwacdqhphuve6qccsqlrwtuy96kalq696mrf

People kept losing their follow list in other clients and nostr:npub1aeh2zw4elewy5682lxc6xnlqzjnxksq303gwu2npfaxd49vmde6qcq4nwx kept informing them over and over that they can restore with Nostur: nostr:note198rm2s0u7d8vwv2m2cw53xn058m49xdxgzkvwrjqs47w29q0x0ksrpmmhn

nostr:note1z2mw5q8afav072aljp7nfrtl9km2ymufpa3qk0xhf4rq0hvp0nmsedz0cq

nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624 informed me about NIP-96, a spec for hosting media files and nostr:npub1ust7u0v3qffejwhqee45r49zgcyewrcn99vdwkednd356c9resyqtnn3mj suggested to use WordPress for this. With some help from ChatGPT Nostr Media Uploads for WordPress was born:

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https://github.com/fabianfabian/nostr-media/releases/tag/0.7-beta

The spam problem got solved, with some caveats, which I wrote about in Nostr and the accidental Web of Trust:

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And I haven’t posted about this one much yet but it exists: a Swift package to start building your own nostr client:

https://github.com/nostur-com/nostr-essentials

Finally special thanks to nostr:npub1lrnvvs6z78s9yjqxxr38uyqkmn34lsaxznnqgd877j4z2qej3j5s09qnw5, nostr:npub1cdak4q4f3h3k3sgyh0rd5dj4w8k95f3mquzh6z3ew76vqkh60e3slyczgz, and nostr:npub1ust7u0v3qffejwhqee45r49zgcyewrcn99vdwkednd356c9resyqtnn3mj for pushing Nostur to the limits, finding bugs, suggesting improvements and showing demos like: nostr:note1pmctdvtswxd404ps0rfhzqpdz5glgwc6fy0argm0qgucp832n70s6ewlh2

I know I missed some, I have many bookmarks and I also lost a few migrating to a new system.

I’m not much of a marketeer so I rely on all of you to describe your experiences, thank you all!

BTW: if some of the embedded posts are not loading, consider adding an archival relay to your relay settings: wss://relay.nostr.band and wss://a.nos.lol should get you all the posts you need.