If it doesnāt work on desktop browsers, itās of very little use to me.
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Primal works in desktop browsers though⦠Not sure what youāre getting at, but what Iām saying is that it is in fact a good option for search on Nostr, perhaps even the only option at the moment. Iām not aware of other search providers on nostr right now, but if a better one comes along, whether from Primal or anyone else, it will be a good thing. Yakihonne recently added some decent filters for creating feeds, but I couldnāt get it to really work as a search and it didnāt reliably find the notes I used to test it. Itās an area where nostr has room for improvement, but itās kind of silly for people to ignore that there is an option for search, even it doesnāt check off all the boxes on your checklist.
Not a Primal hatoor, Iāve just never had a good experience with the desktop client. It seems like itās been abandoned.
Been working fine for me, but your experience is your experience. The github for their web app shows recent and regular updates so doesnāt seem to be abandoned at all.
My experience comes from doing a lot of searches for peoplesā first Nostr notes and had much more success finding them with a combination of nostr.band and advancednostrsearch than I did using Primal. I gave it a fair shot.
Also I just tried the Primal destkop search now and it complete froze my browser. So that really doesnāt bode well.