Sir this app barely loads. When it does it takes 5 minutes for me to see any information
I honestly have no fucking idea which is why I don’t use it
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What client are you using? You have 42 relays, and you are surprised it is crashing? 😆
I don’t even know how many relays I have. I am someone who is trying to use an app
How would I even know that information good god
Laughing at someone for not comprehending the UX clusterfuck that is relays is not how you #grownostr.
Yeah honestly I have no idea. there’s a box that says I should add some, nothing auto populates
I mean this Damus app is pretty good otherwise
Go through and remove all of your relays except the Damus one, then re-add the defaults, which is only like half a dozen or so.
Should make a HUGE difference in performance and load time.
Knowing which relays and how many is probably one of Nostr’s biggest UX hurdles so far that it hasn’t yet overcome.
It’s an easy fix if you add some for the user and then slowly educate them. We know what needs to be done.
Having them visible to the user at all makes the UX too alienating to nearly all non-techie potential users. It should be something almost entirely handled in the background, as any potential to get it wrong without understanding it will worsen your experience.
The average human should not need to be educated about how nostr works for it to be appealing and useful, or it won’t succeed.
Yes and no. I do agree that things must “just work” but I don’t fully agree that they shouldn’t be educated on how nostr works. Plenty of technology has a learning curve. iPhone, email, hell… video chat for many people. There’s nothing wrong with having the users learn a few things about the platform they use, people are not that stupid. But yes, things should just work the moment you land. Showing relays in settings is not an issue IMO as long as you explain how they work (but the user is not required to make any changes for things to work).
Somewhere in the middle there would be perfect, but still… 
I would reduce your relay list to ~5-10 and see how things go. I would make sure you have:
- wss://nos.lol
- wss://relay.damus.io
- wss://relay.snort.social
To get broad coverage and then select a few others from people you follow
#[4] follow these instructions
nostr:note1s6g2gn6nyzx549n535pkleduallnz38qffral6f0lvddata6lgjq9uqyds
I love that this is most definitely the real Rizzo ✨
Surprising that the editor of bitcoin magazine doesnt no much about lightning and nothing about nostr...probably the 2 biggest parallel tech for the proliferation of bitcoin... Like what news are you reporting on in this space? 😅