If you have a PC or laptop, you can now try out kind 24 messaging on https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu by logging in with a browser extension and selecting "View Profile" from the menu. That will open the new Notifications page.
If you are on a cell phone, please fallback to the older version on https://alexandria.gitcitadel.eu, until we can get the new relay management and SSR straightened out.
So that is how I have to do it now.
Public messages are really fun. Such a simplistic implementation that adds so much. I really like the way you can click on the gray quote-bar and it scrolls down the feed to that entry and highlights it.
If you press the filter button, it hides everything except your convos with that npub. If you reply, it includes the message you are replying to as a "q" tag, which is what then turns into the gray bar.
I don't think it's a good idea for people (@`OpenSats`) to be sleeping on this.
Think of it this way: I see a note on nostr that I know is related to a note I wrote before but is different. What if I could "relate" those two notes? Then someone sees those two notes (or just one) and has something to say and writes a third note and references either one of the original two notes? Rinse and repeat a few times and a thought web begins to be built. A digital garden with many gardeners as it were.
Social media "threads" are siloed 2D representations of thoughts and ideas. These guys are making the notion of threads 3D. (while that is a horrible downplay of the possibilities here, it represents a way to start understanding this thing).
Right now this is only for Kind 30041 Events and indexed by Kind 30040 and it may only ever be that way but this is huge. It's a human minds connector and it's being built on nostr.
It's a hot mess on mobile, but you can see the general idea in this video. I have to refresh a lot, to grab some relays.
Here is a video of a long kind 1 thread. Alex will have no social feed (but it will receive a kind 11 threads Discussions board after MVP!), but you can now read, write, and respond to kind 1 notes (and all other notes, including profiles, articles, publications, etc.) over the Events page.
Again, this is currently only available in alpha version for PC.
Comment threads contain kind 1 replies, kind 1111 comments, and kind 9802 highlights.
I know it's hideous. 😂
nostr:npub1636uujeewag8zv8593lcvdrwlymgqre6uax4anuq3y5qehqey05sl8qpl4 saw it and was like
Viewing this note and its thread might work on mobile. Try going to this address and pulling down, to refresh.
Huh. Confusing. It actually worked, on mobile. 🤔
Sort of haphazard, but looks like nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj picked it up for me on land.
Oh man, the formatting on mobile is *really* bad. My apologies. We'll straighten it all out.
Well, nostr:npub1636uujeewag8zv8593lcvdrwlymgqre6uax4anuq3y5qehqey05sl8qpl4 nostr:npub1wqfzz2p880wq0tumuae9lfwyhs8uz35xd0kr34zrvrwyh3kvrzuskcqsyn nostr:npub1m3xdppkd0njmrqe2ma8a6ys39zvgp5k8u22mev8xsnqp4nh80srqhqa5sf will straighten it out, as I'm heading off to do my actual job of test automation. I've done enough damage. 😂
For the record, we rolled back to a slightly newer version than what was on next-alexandria previously. We call that "fail forward"
This is cool, what a nice improvement! The notifications are nice & being able to see profile comments opens up a lot of possibilities. I like the white on tan, that's very nice to look at. And, I found Ovid :)
Playing around the the publication visualizer, there is some jitteriness in the top and bottom corners on the right side of the screen, I think, from conflict in whether to display the preview card or the navigation tools. Other than that, it's great to be able to sort that by kind, and it's much smoother, now.
I maybe should have sent this through Alexandria, but I'm sort of bouncing between a dozen things right now. I'll sit down with it for a little longer tomorrow & send any other feedback that way.
🫂 Thank you! We accept feedback anywhere we receive it.
I'll forward this to an issue.
Wow that’s really cool
What is your vision for Alexandria, what should it become? A kind of Wikipedia, or Medium, or Libgen?
Upending the publishing cartel, academia, paywalled journals, and idiotic insistence on Twitter clones.
Thanks, can you expand on this? This is quite broad and could mean many things. It sounds like you want to enable scientific publications in open access. Is that the idea? Only the hosting, or also organizing peer review, e.g. similar to OpenReview.net?
