What's the status of displaying threads in a meaningful way in the various #nostr clients? Still fucked?
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I'm asking because I want to fire out some fire threads, and I don't particularly like long-form notes.
(And I don't want to write a full-blown blog post.)
I'm usually not that high maintenance, I promise.
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i’d argue potentially for screenshots of your thread posts, uploading them as images, so we could scroll them on the carousel.
scroll through them*
Ok.
seeing each tweet as a separate image > seeing them all in one.
seems more bite-sized like that and keeps the people more curious about what’s on the next one.
currently it seems like a wall of text (which is one of the biggest drawbacks of the long-form content also)
someone needs to take a leaf out of Telegram's book and free up real estate when the notes of a thread are authored by the same person:
- why repeat the name?
- why repeat the profile pic?
- slide over the text to the left to take the entire width to finally allow:
- moving those 4 icons to the side of posts and not underneath (ESPECIALLY on web versions...)
SwissNode formatting FTW!!!
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What client do you use daily?
Damus long-form notes have been pretty good as of late, nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac been posting some and they’ve been pretty clean to read
Amethyst main. Damus on desktop, Primal on browser. I don't like long-form notes.
"Damus Web is down because there is someone trying to exploit browser loopholes to steal private keys. I would not recommend using a web client at this time. Damus iOS is not affected. "
hmmm - will give that a miss then!
yeah but Apple...
i’m with you on this. i still post replies under a note as if it’s a thread anyways.
not sure how you usually do threads but imo, a thread on nostr should not be a chain of replies, but replies to the same root, this way it gets easier to display the thread, otherwise it's just a mess of nested content when you always reply to the last note.
bad:
1st
|_ 2nd
|_|_ 3rd
|_|_|_ 4th
good:
1st
|_ 2nd
|_ 3rd
|_ 4th
No, a thread is a chain of replies. Clients need to be smart enough to display them in a flat way, even though the structure is nested. Twitter got that right.
I flatten the thread as you can see here so I account for both:
my layout displays threads either chained or not, but I still think structurally / hierarchically, the information flow should not be nested. just how my brain works...¯\_(ツ)_/¯
my pet hate are those 4 symbols printed under EVERY note in EVERY client, wasting valuable vertical real estate. Why some client can't just put those 4 icons to the side and perhaps even only show them on a mouseover (unless there are non-zero counts) I don't get!
Almost makes me want to make my own client now! lol
Status for https://coracle.social i think it's kind of nice.
Yep
takes a while but works
Coracle does it well. Seems to be the only one so far.
Thanks for the tip. Aaaah 
How it looks on Nostur:
