It's a little embarrassing, but Nos has never had paginated feeds. This means all the feeds you see are really only downloading the last 100 or so notes from relays and if you try to scroll farther than that you will have a bad time.
Well this week I'm finally fixing that, and I just scrolled back through all my Nostr notes, with good performance, and got all the way back to my first: note1v3k65t6a9kvsmjv0k59xe6x7vhthgxwwu6yaw9fujysht6zu49wss8tx8p
Feels like a big achievement! Nos was written as a demo for Nostrica, and everything we've added to it has been coded up hastily as an experiment/exploration. With our new funding from nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxxatjwfjkuapwveukjtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszree88 and longer runway we can take the time to build something nice. It feels really good.