Nostr Web Client

Sunday Rant:

To those who complain about UX, you clearly never been part of a software development project. Good UX takes so much time to build and get right after thousands of iterations.

“Just make it simpler” isn’t always as simple as it looks. Some of this simplest things can take days to get perfect.

Just saying dont give up on nostr because you think its “bad UX” and say “LN sucks” that will come in months and years to come. You are an early adopter be proud of it. Dont shy away from it. Test and break things. Find bugs. Tag devs with your feedback. Makes their lives so much easier as they can they can prioritise their development tasks better.

If you see newbie make them aware of how software development works before they decided to leave. For someone reason people have this weird belief that Twitter and Facebook were perfect from day 1.

Rant over.

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Discussion

Sovereign Matt 2y ago

For example: @Damus please add spell check for writing posts. Im a lazy reader and terrible writer who relies on spell check for my everyday life. 😂

BitcoinBelle 2y ago

Understood.

I thought it’d be annoying to leave feedback because I may not know what I’m saying but I will now! Aaannddd make sure the feedback I give is constructive. We are all learning and growing.

Rant appreciated 💜💫

Sovereign Matt 2y ago

Thanks for tip 🧡. I had couple of people complain to me about their Nostr experience so thought I would tell others publicly.

phil 2y ago

There are also many different Nostr clients so if you don’t like the UX with one there are others alternative that you may prefer.

davies 2y ago

The UX is good and, as you say, getting better.

They obviously don't understand what's being built.

We don't need negative nancies on here.

Sovereign Matt 2y ago

I guess we need to do all try do a better job explaining them the “Why Nostr” pitch.

davies 2y ago

Guess so. I've been working in social media before it was called social media. I saw it go from full of promise to full of hate-filled bile. There's a lot at stake here.

reidsomethings 2y ago

I've lost my follow list twice now, having to re-add everyone I followed. My app keeps crashing. But I'm still here, for the signal. Wouldn't miss it and I'm glad to be a part of building this. 🤙

Sovereign Matt 2y ago

Yeh that happened to me in December time when I first joined the running bird protocol. It’s all about the journey at the end of the day.

𝖋𝖎𝖆𝖙𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖗 (¯`◕‿◕´¯) 2y ago

What relay are you using? Try hosting your own private one to save your list

reidsomethings 2y ago

A few paid ones (milou,puravida,orangepill) and then the standard damus, etc.

That's a good idea. I might look into running my own private relay.