Regular notes (kind 1) are intended to be relatively short. They are also plain text only. They are ideal to have show up in a continuous feed.

Long-form notes (kind 30023) are meant to be just that: long. Not ideal to show up in a continuous feed. Additionally, they support markdown for more dynamic formatting.

Not all clients need to support all note kinds and certainly not in the same feed.

For instance, Habla.news ONLY supports long-form. There's nothing wrong with that. That's what the client dev has decided to make a client focused on. Olas is a client that ONLY shows image-specific notes (kind20). Cool. Fountain has a feed that only shows notes that mention podcasts, because it's a podcast client first, with social interaction enabled by Nostr.

Meanwhile, Amethyst tries to pack in as many different note kinds as it reasonably can, so that the user who wants a single client that they can see most everything on will be served. However, it won't do any one thing nearly as well as a client dedicated to it. You CAN use Amethyst to view Nostr livestreams, but you would probably have a better experience on zap.stream. You CAN use Amethyst to view an image-only feed, but you would probably have a better experience on Olas. You CAN view long-form notes on Amethyst, but the experience is probably going to be better on Habla or Highlighter. You CAN see marketplace listings on Amethyst, but you have way more options for filtering and browsing by category if you go to Shopstr.

So no, you're not going to see your long-form note on every Nostr client, nor should you.

Also, you are not broadcasting your notes TO clients. You are broadcasting them to relays, and the clients fetch the note kinds that they support from those relays.

Sidenote: I was able to see your article on Primal just fine here: https://primal.net/e/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpztv8m5x99xel8qfac6hxd9w7jly77pg2z92nqgddyud8ns9fnp3qqxnzdenxcer2dehxvmnwvpkzj4xx9

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Thank You so very much, for taking the time to write that.

I understand things now.

For reach i rekon the importance lies in relays, my amethyest has boat loads of em, unlike my primal. Relays seem to be quite a tricky thing.

Thank you again.

Also i cannot edit things in nostr can I? 😆

Not kind 1 notes. You CAN edit long-form notes though.

Ooo i thought i could not. Although my article does not need editing. The zap distribution needed some fix, it was suggested by habala itself so i gave everyone a stake and added nostr:nprofile1qqsy67zzq5tc9cxnl6crf52s4hptdwhyaca5j7r8jwll535tdadedvcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2uc68qy9c out there too, some did not have wallets, some required minimum zaps🤣. I tried zapping once, there was a lot of popops. I tried to remove em, every time i edited it the zap share halved and multiplyed once, making it funny and weird looking. Maybe a bug!

Type 1 notes can already be edited in Amethyst, but it is not a protocol-approved feature. They are currently under discussion.

That must be some deep discussion huh. Any idea which side is winning? Where can i discuss it. I am all for time limited edit option, after that its permanent. Also unlimited time delete option.

Which side you on?

Here you have the definition of all approved NOSTR features. If you go to issues you will see discussions about many things.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips

The pull request section is where change requests are submitted for approval. There are some rules for something to be approved.

Thanks it looks like edit guys won. They are figuring out how to do it. Some high level people at work over there.

That is a lot of features there. Dayum.

Yeah, since edits aren't supported by any other client, it is best to think of them as simply not being a thing for the time being.

Sure, make the edit for the sake of your own OCD on Amethyst, but understand that the majority of users will still be seeing the original version.

Even if we do get edits in the future, something to understand is that someone could still end up seeing the pre-edited version, because your edit may not make it out to as many relays as the original post.

Same thing goes for deletion requests.