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what kind of quality of life improvements? always interested in hearing ideas to make astral better

Sure! Here are some thoughts that I've had.

I think seeing which relays a note is posted to is important, but I probably don't need to see it on each and every single comment or reply. There's already a relays button in the top right corner. I don't think I need to also see it down below. It just takes up value screen real estate. I'd like to to be removed. If I want to see which relays the note successfully posted to, I can click the button.

I would like to see Lightning integrated on each note and on user profiles. I believe this is coming soon according to GitHub. I can't wait for this :)

I would like to see Lists integrated. When you follow a lot of pubkeys it becomes hard to find certain content. I have some RSS feeds and companies that I follow. If I'd like to find their latest posts or news, it's a bit tedious now. I'd like to be able to organize pubkeys into following Lists. Similar to Twitter's Lists.

Posting GIFs are important. It's become commonplace for reactions and for laughs. We can already do this now by opening up a separate browser tab, visiting tenor.com for example, finding the GIF link, and posting it back to our Astral post. It would be nice if we had an integrated GIF search and automatic URL posting once the GIF was found. It just makes things more simple and easier.

If I blow away my local storage, I have to go down through every single DM and mark them as read again. Is it possible for a client to track if a DM message was read? I have over 100+ DMs. This process is tedious.

If I can think of anything else, I'll let you know. You're doing a great job. Keep up the fantastic work!

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monlovesmango 3y ago

wow what a great list!

for relay list-i've gotten this feedback before but am hesitant to comply bc I want to force the users to see the relays on the main event on the thread. in my experience with end users if you don't force them to notice technical details they will happily ignore it. I am open to making relay section a bit smaller..? would that help at all..?

yes lightning and lists are coming! just need more time 😩

localstorage workaround is wait for all posts to load before visiting message inbox page. by default all messages will be marked as read when you clear local storage and go to inbox. however if you only have a partial list of messages loaded it will only mark those as read. this is a bug I hadn't thought about and will fix this once I do some relay handling refactoring.

thank you for taking the time to write all that out! please keep the ideas coming!

Nicolas ₿ ⚡️ 🇦🇷🧉🤙💜 3y ago

hey .. If I may.. I'd also like an option in my feed to just see posts and not replies... sometimes I just want to scroll and see what's going on. It's yet hard to click for every comment especially since we don't see the original post 👍

monlovesmango 3y ago

I hadn't thought about this but I agree. will add this with feed customization.

oldpatrickulrich 3y ago

😍

this will be a great addition

Derek Ross 3y ago

This is a great suggestion too. I like seeing comments in the feed for new users, so maybe it's the default, that way new users can easily find people to follow. As those we're following gets more robust, it's hard to find direct posts as most of the feed is filled with comments.

monlovesmango 3y ago

I would make the setting specific to the feed. so if you want replies in one feed and not the other you can do that.

Derek Ross 3y ago

Sounds perfect. Thank you!

Nicolas ₿ ⚡️ 🇦🇷🧉🤙💜 3y ago

that's what I wanted. The problem with seeing replies is that you don't typically see the original note they are replying to. So my feed is full of 🤙 💯🎯 and other simple replies but I don't get to see all the context and it makes my feed confusing at times

Nicolas ₿ ⚡️ 🇦🇷🧉🤙💜 3y ago

Continuation from previous:

There are times where I like the replies, for instance when I follow the person who posted a note and the person who replied, so my feed tells me all the story and I like it

but when I don't follow the person who posted the note then I don't get to see the original comment.That's probably what's happening?

Mike 3y ago

On mobile it is not obvious if I clicked on load unread. Is it possible to make it change colors when it is clicked or maybe add a load unread button to the navigation buttons?

monlovesmango 3y ago

nav buttons are already a bit in the way. but will try for better visual indicator of unread posts loading.

Mike 3y ago

Ya, I have gotten used to collapsing and expanding the nav buttons when on mobile.

monlovesmango 3y ago

yes. bc follows feed is really dumb and doesn't fetch any context. this is definitely on the todo list.

jleger2023 3y ago

Excellent suggestion. Would love a checkbox to hide replies so I can just see the new OPs.

Derek Ross 3y ago

You are absolutely right about users. This has been my experience. Perhaps making it a bit smaller would be better as you suggested.

Thank you!

Thank you for your continued work on features and bugs.

monlovesmango 3y ago

😂 noted will resize the relay list. thanks for the discussion!

monlovesmango 3y ago

also about the gif thing... I have plans for this as well. but need to stabilize the UI first.