Nostr Web Client

I think we're in the refactoring dulldrums, is all. Never been on a big project that didn't stall out and rework, at some point, because some of the stuff didn't scale well or some of the founders got bored and wandered off.

Projects are already deep into maintenance and some experimental types refuse to do maintenance and have nobody in the team to pick up after the Proof of Concept stage.

I think we're going to have fewer projects, going forward, but they'll be larger, more seriously run and better-supported. And stuff will be less buggy.

The Fishcake (nostr.build) 1y ago

Great observation! 🐶🐾🫂🙏🏻

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Laeserin 1y ago

Don't you think that users also underestimate how much time is spent on system admin and DevOps stuff? Or trying out a new tech stack?

As soon as you try to scale something up, without losing performance, development slows down, dramatically, because that's when you have to Do Hard Things and Try Stuff Out and Test Test Test.

The Fishcake (nostr.build) 1y ago

99% of developers do not know how things scale or how to scale, therefore making poor design decisions along the way. 🐶🐾🫡

Laeserin 1y ago

That's why we see more developers with enterprise experience starting to enter the space, but we're used to 2-year roadmaps, with the first 3 months just setting up the sprawling dev environment, assigning roles, deciding if you want to use a framework, selecting languages and unit test programs, figuring out how to name things and how to organize folders and... everyone be like WHEN CLIENT?

Yeah, yeah. Shaddup.

Daniel Wigton 1y ago

As one of the 99% I take exception to this note because you didn't tell me what my poor design decisions are and how to avoid them.

Daniel Wigton 1y ago

I personally think Nostr picked all the wrong primitives, but have to admit Json at least makes it easy to adopt.

Vivi Nella Verita 1y ago

You should run a relay and see how shitty they are.