Nostr Web Client

Lessons from the bluesky-verse: add notifications to your app for user retention. Bsky spams you with notifications (even of single likes) by default. It's working. I keep opening the app. Copy it.

PABLOF7z 1y ago

I don’t think so.

I always struggle with this; where’s the line? Isn’t this a terrible, attention seeking, dark pattern that we don’t want to mirror?

And, on the other hand, are we fighting with a hand tied behind our back? Where’s the line on what ethical grounds you should yield to in the seek of adoption? Is adoption even the right metric? I thought it was but it’s definitely not to me anymore.

Which is the line that, once you cross it, you end up undermining the whole endeavor?

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TKay 1y ago

You enable notifications.

Users can disable them if they dont want them. Its always been like that for notifications.

calle 1y ago

Agree

PABLOF7z 1y ago

Don’t get me wrong; there’s a place for notifications, no doubt and I will add them to some of my clients where it makes sense.

But the Hooked style patterns of trying to hack your users brains is not something we should (at least I won’t, maybe to my detriment, who knows) mimic.

calle 1y ago

I don't think it's a dark pattern, just a notification that something interesting happened. I actually find it useful information.

Brady 1y ago

I want to be able to turn on notifications for posts from accounts I'm interested in just like Twitter. This would drastically increase my Nostr usage