Hi Stuart! I just started n/podcasting ---- Are you saying that other people could use the same URL (https://satellite.earth/n/podcasting/) for a different group discussing podcasting? Thx
Disambiguating Community Forks
I noticed that people have been linking to nostr communities without including the admin's pubkey in the URL, e.g.
just https://satellite.earth/n/dwadziesciajeden
instead of the full URL https://satellite.earth/n/dwadziesciajeden/npub1xpuz4qerklyck9evtg40wgrthq5rce2mumwuuygnxcg6q02lz9ms275ams
It might seem like a minor issue but I think handling this ambiguity is actually pretty important for UX — subreddit's were useful because you could refer to them by name like "r slash [whatever]" and it was obvious what you had to type into your web browser to get there. On nostr it's trickier because there can be multiple versions of a community, each namespaced to the pubkey of its admin.
To deal with this, I just pushed an update showing a page at the bare URL that lists all the forks of community.
If you're signed in and Satellite detects that you're subscribed to one of the forks, you'll be redirected there automatically.
In a future update I might make it so that non-signed-in users get directed to the most popular fork.
Discussion
The full URL of your community includes your npub as the owner/admin. If someone else starts a podcasting community the URL will include their npub. So it will never be the same URL. If you navigate to https://satellite.earth/podcasting it will display a list of all the communities called “podcasting” that are owned by different people. If Satellite detects that you’re subscribed to one of the communities already, you’ll automatically be redirected there
*sorry I meant https://satellite.earth/n/podcasting 🤦♂️