Nostr Web Client

Curious to hear how Nosta is not working out for you and how that could be improved.

1. It's still very weird and confusing to send new users to another site (with a very strong and different branding) just for account creation. At least for the apps I'm working on. If it would also be a browser, browser extension, wallet or combo of those it would maybe be worth it. So althoung Nosta is one of the more beautiful nostr apps out there, it doesn't match with what I'm looking for.

2. Input fields without clear titles, no image upload/edit support, no preview of profile,

3. Forcing me to go through all 12 words + no explanation off the link with the nsec. Then sending the user somewhere else again for the nsec (alby, nos2x). Then sending users somewhere else again for their handle. Then again somewhere else for zap acceptance.

4. First action is following people. This is not what people need for most "other stuff" apps (f.e. highlighter, nostree, ...). Topics or sth else is more appropriate there, but mostly these users just want to start creating and try out the app asap.

It's great for some other use cases though, just not a good fit for mine.

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Nosta 2y ago

Makes sense. Nosta is currently designed as a general entry point into the Nostr ecosystem, not as a replacement flow for other clients. This is something I'd like to explore further and have a to-do here: https://github.com/GBKS/nosta-me/issues/64

There were some discussions months ago around building an onboarding kit that would allow devs to easily set up customized profile creation based on their unique client needs. I don't think much happened with that though.

To your point 3, that definitely needs to improve. Users need to be much better set up to log in to other clients after profile creation. Need to prioritize that.

For point 4, do you imagine following hashtags? Or having categories of people and then pick who to follow? I looked around recently and there just didn't seem enough content out there to make that work. But things change quickly...

Appreciate the input. Which clients are you working on mostly?