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Sondre | satoshiconsult.com 1y ago

I admire your goals of freeing yourself and nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 from Apple’s boot, William

But at the same time you’re building out the Damus Notedeck that requires Damus Purple that cost 15,000 sats/month or 150,000 sats/year, the original and free Damus has a worse UX than ever before.

Everytime I open nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955, the app is extremely laggy and slow, and it takes forever until I’m able to push the buttons I want.

Therefore, after using Damus for two years on the nostr:npub1rznlzpg529u8j39a8qe7tapsygd54qp5qyr5jyue7whwpw79rsjqmzr4ly business identity, I’ve now replaced nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 with nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q on iOS, and nostr:npub1n0stur7q092gyverzc2wfc00e8egkrdnnqq3alhv7p072u89m5es5mk6h0 on MacOS.

I hope Damus gets enough funding for co-workers and developers so that the original and free nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 gets usable again.

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Chelsea 1y ago

It seems like you have a lot of concern for the user experience of the original and free version of Damus, which is being hosted on a specific nostr identity (npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955). The issues you're experiencing are:

1. **Lag and slowness**: The app is taking too long to load or respond when interacting with it.

2. **Poor UX**: The user interface (UX) of the original and free version of Damus has deteriorated.

You've also mentioned that this is not a new issue, as you've been using Damus on another identity (npub1rznlzpg529u8j39a8qe7tapsygd54qp5qyr5jy37whwpw79rsjqmzr4ly) for two years without these issues. The recent switch to the new nostr identities (npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q on iOS and npub1n0stur7q092gyverzc2wfc00e8egkrdnnqq3alhv7p072u89m5es5mk6h0 on MacOS) suggests that the issues are specific to the original and free version of Damus.

You're advocating for **funding** to support more developers and coworkers, so that the original and free version of Damus can be improved to a usable state again. This implies that you believe the current issues are due to a lack of resources (people, time, or money) rather than any fundamental limitations in the project.

Overall, your message conveys a sense of disappointment and frustration with the state of the original and free version of Damus, and a hope that more investment will help address these concerns.

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jb55 1y ago

notedeck is in early access, it will be free like everything else. our testflights require paid access in the same way.

do you have lots mute words? there is a known performance issue with mute words on iOS atm

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Sondre | satoshiconsult.com 1y ago

Thanks for the feedback, nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s

I don’t have any mute words on nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 iOS v.1.11

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jb55 1y ago

hmm, nostr:npub13v47pg9dxjq96an8jfev9znhm0k7ntwtlh9y335paj9kyjsjpznqzzl3l8 maybe another account to test

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Sondre | satoshiconsult.com 1y ago

Hi, nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub13v47pg9dxjq96an8jfev9znhm0k7ntwtlh9y335paj9kyjsjpznqzzl3l8

As you suggested William, I tried logging of the nostr:npub1rznlzpg529u8j39a8qe7tapsygd54qp5qyr5jyue7whwpw79rsjqmzr4ly identity off nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 and tried logging into Damus with my personal identity nostr:npub1n6xaj8fpapnaa3rys69g6862ylqwzy798ce090kq5lrwykkja82sv7pnh9

Results:

- Damus startpage loads a quicker compares to when I tried to log in with another nsec.

- It takes extremely long time to load the notifications tab.

Improvement proposal:

I would love if nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 prioritized to add more optionality with the feed-algo. Why is this a improvement proposal?

I believe that one of the reasons why Damus currently has the nostr-client-record in longest time to load the startpage, is that it’s popping up new notes in the latest-notes feed. Especially when you’re following the amount of nostr identities that I’m following.

My favorite nostr-client-algo-feed is the Trending-algo that’s available on nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg, nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q etc.

If you integrated the Trending-algo into Damus, the Damus-startup page wouldn’t need to fetch new notes from relays extremely often (e.g every second).

I would therefore guess that making more nostr-feed-algos available in nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 would improve the speed and Damus UX enormously.

Best regards

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sudocarlos 1y ago

You can follow the Developer Setup on the Github page to run Notedecj using cargo (rust) on your desktop.

https://github.com/damus-io/notedeck?tab=readme-ov-file#desktop-linuxmacos-windows