Nostr Web Client

I understand nostr is free, but can I buy a copy on DVD so I don't have to download all the events from all the relays?

I know nostr or gossip can not be as fast a centralized network. (and VPN does not help)

What bothers me is the lack of feedback when requesting a full thread or the previous post.

it just goes blank, with a generic "recomputing". then I give up, try another. And the previous one keeps appearing, it is anoying.

I would like to be able to see some kind of queue with feedback:

2 requests are dead - no known relays are supposed to have the data. give up.

5 requests are stalled - the client has access to relevant relays, but they did not answer yet. please wait.

1 request is 50% done... wait a bit more

1 request is almost done...

then I would know when to give up, when to go have a cup of tea, etc.

It appears that it takes more than 20min before I can see full threads or previous posts.

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

You are having a highly atypical experience. For me thread loads are nearly instant, and I can't read the world RECOMPUTING as it flashes so fast that I almost never see it anymore.

I'm going to suggest that you make a few tweaks:

1) In settings, uncheck "Recompute feed periodically" or if you really want it to do so, ramp it up to 12000 milliseconds. Better to uncheck it and press "Refresh" yourself manually.

2) Set the feed chunk down to at most 12 hours, probably less in your case. You apparently can't load too many events at once.

3) Similar for the Replies chunk... maybe to 4 days or so.

4) Change How Many Relays to Query to 2 (that is what I use and it is pretty good).

I'm doing a major code and storage overhaul that might improve your situation, but it might not, it depends on whether the issue is you are following massive numbers of people, or you have a very slow network, or you are following people too redundantly or something.

If we still end up in a position where things are so slow that we need progress indicators, I'm not against doing it.