tagging on nostr is still the largest pain point for the average person, imo. an incredible amount of effort is put into tagging - a function that makes us able to be social on a social protocol. it boils down to search. searching for users to be able to tag them in notes needs to be drastically improved so that it works every time. until then, it's essentially broken. #fudstr
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Nostr is just broken
Not broken. Incomplete. It's being built live before our eyes and we're using very alpha or beta products. We can't near completion without fixing bugs and issues along the way!
I’m always worried I’ll tag a fake account and it will be forever in my note.
The fake tagging sucks, but at least some clients have indicators such as check marks to show that is the npub that you're following. For me it's having to copy out entir notes, save them, then go and research all of the people you want to tag on am external website.
Yeah, there is so much to be desired.
Thankfully the fake accounts haven’t realized how easy it is to get their own NIP-05 checkmark. Someday they will.
npubs and notes should be embedded by default just by typing them... without @ or anything
I don't mind typing @user as that's been the standard for well over a decade.
yes ofc but i mean if you paste the npub it should tag without the need of @
That works as expected on Amethyst 😂
same if i paste note17fmvddnz32jvc9pgl8kt0hxe6yttj88cs7vq435yam6lp5jrhrzsl900qe
that should embed the note without needing to do anything else
Are you saying that people being tagged are not seeing that they are tagged? Guess I wouldn’t know about having that problem like some of you Nostr big wigs 😂 nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 (did it work that time??!!)
Does it have to do with what relays are being used to tag somebody vs the relays they are using? Or are you saying the search function doesn’t reach across all relays or that it’s not functioning as it should? And normally anytime I am looking for somebody to tag, they do show up. I’ve never been looking for a person to tag and can’t get them to pop up either
This is the case in the latest version of Primal for Android. I would tag the but I can't. We're so early. I know the developers across Nostr are overworked and underpaid relative to the value they are creating.
I fully believe that given enough time, everything will be working beautifully. We just need a bit of time 🫂🤙🏻