Nostr Web Client

For all the Nostr developers out there I challenge you to use your apps in manual approve mode ( no automatic signing ) with a signer like alby or amber. I'm willing to bet it will be almost unusable

I would say at least half of the apps I've seen built on Nostr just don't work unless you give the app full control over your key, by either pasting the nsec or giving it automatic signing privlages.

This is bad UX and shows that the app does not respect the user at all. What's the point of having cryptographic signatures if I can only uses them in "sign everything" mode?

I will zap you 10k SATs if you post a screenshare in the next day or so of how well the app works or doesn't work with manual signing

Sebastix 7mo ago

What is your definition of unusable in the context of UX? When the signing confirmation modal of the extension pops up randomly without any interaction logic / user input?

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hzrd149 7mo ago

For android any signing request will switch the app over to amber, so if one signing request pops up its not bad. but when there are 5+ in a row it becomes unusable. in the worst case it never ends

For web the signer takes focus away from the window, so its annoying but sometime manageable if I ignore some of the signing requests

Sebastix 7mo ago

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What often bother me (and is maybe even worse) that if I decline a signing request, often nothing happens or things are just freezed.

"What's the point of having cryptographic signatures if I can only uses them in "sign everything" mode?"

With asking this question, you also state / assume that the user will fully distrust the client? Which is a good and fair point to start with imo :) but over time, your client could gain trust