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# Useful Sites

### Get Started

[nostr.how - Get up and running, now!](https://nostr.how/)

[Useless Shit - Lots of Nostr Info](https://uselessshit.co/resources/nostr/)

[usenostr.org - Another good resource](https://usenostr.org/)

### Continued Learning

[nostr.build - Nostr image hosting](https://nostr.build/)

[nostr.band - Nostr network and user info](https://nostr.band/)

[zaplife.lol - Real time zap statistics](https://zaplife.lol/)

[badges.page - We need stinking badges!](https://badges.page/)

How does markdown look on different clients? I'm going to make a copypasta for newbs, let me know!

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Damus took away markdown because it’s not accepted on most clients

Boo

That looks good. Damus got rid of embedded urls because you can hide suspicious sites into them. It makes sense, but I miss having bold and italics.

Security wise it makes sense. Easy way around is a prompt, like steam for instance, that shows the real URL with a button to click. Seems backwards not having rich text though.

Damus still not ready

I mean, is not horrible, markdown is still readable as plain text. I also use openbox, so my sense of user friendliness is a bit off. This is probably just a confusing mess to a lot of new damus users, right?

Better to do it as plain text?

Damus deliberately does not format Markdown. It used to and was removed, I believe. Requiring clients understand Markdown adds more complexity to notes that are otherwise and arguably unnecessary.

Yeah, I figured that after I posted. Things are much more complicated than they may look to the end user.

No reason to have markdown in a “simple” chat client

For now. Hopefully someday Nostr clients consume web browsers, and everything is decentralized. I want my notes to be web pages.

They already are at blogstackr and Habla.news

There will be many clients that do markdown well in longer format but not every client needs to or should support that

Interesting idea

Looks like plain text on Damus