I'd love to have a client or filter that doesn't show images or videos, only short text notes.
And I'd love to have a client that only shows images. And one for just videos.
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https://nostrgram.co/ lets you switch these. Sadly, development seems to have stopped 😔
And the developer vanished without a trace 😟
Not sure if this is true in this particular case or not but it's usually due to developer burnout. I've seen it happen over and over again.
The more exciting a new project is, the greater the risk. The initial excitement and FOMO is a double edged sword. It initially causes them to spend all their spare time on it, but this can often cause burnout and flip to an equally strong opposite emotion of disgust as their subconscious screams "all the hard work you've done on this will never pay off".
sad since back in february-march nostrgram was perhaps the biggest web client 😞
nostr:npub1t9a59hjk48svr8hz6rx727ta6kx53n5d6fw8x26vsua0zytpl87sa6h4uw certainly was competent and churned out quality work in no time. It was the most promising for some time apart from being closed source. And what happened then is kind of the reason why I hated to help him debug it. I had sent numerous bug reports his way for what?
You can use adblock in FF or Chrome and set your own filters to block all images & videos.
There's also a desktop Linux client that's just text only: https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip
Yeah, but that's not what I mean.
Might be easily fixable by adding a mode where images are not just not loaded but links are hidden, too. If that helps with the experience 👀
nostr:npub1t9a59hjk48svr8hz6rx727ta6kx53n5d6fw8x26vsua0zytpl87sa6h4uw was working on a closed source client nostrgram.co that supported such features. Sadly with him vanishing from all his social media presences I could find, his great client also turned obsolete.
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And also one that only shows images of horses.
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nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc are you describing #amethyst?
Am i wrong?
I set pictures to not be loaded and have just text in my messages.
For only pictures i go to the pictures and videos section in Amethyst.
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What I'm talking about is a dense view of just text, no images, no URLs.
If you disable image loading in Amethyst the posts will still take up all of the screen real estate. Compare that with the old reddit interface, or stacker news, for example.
Thank you! Fully agree. Would be much nicer for average users like me too, not having those links everywhere. Maybe a good new feature for #amethyst to get the option to hide them and showing just the small round load icon in the post?
That could also be a toggle in an omnicomprensive client, like Amethyst.
Vitor?
It’s coming… it’s inevitable 💯
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Gossip, just turn off images auto fetching in the preferences 💯
Got it, good point.
PR in progress to hide/prettyfy the URLs.
nostr:npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk this was the idea mentioned in DMs. Iris iOS app top bar is perfect for toggling options, right now it’s just “Posts” and “Post And Replies” but it could also have “Long Form”, “Short Notes”, “GIFs”, et al.
We were going to make a nostr client just like this called Nestr, but now I hope Iris adds it and many others! The more the merrier.
Filters to start — open-source store of algorithms are the end-game.
Filters may be more powerful than we realize in saving people time scrolling.
Only videos is the most important on this list IMHO
slidestr.net only shows images, made by nostr:npub1klr0dy2ul2dx9llk58czvpx73rprcmrvd5dc7ck8esg8f8es06qs427gxc
Noted 🤙 Will add that to nostr:npub1current7ntwqmh2twlrtl2llequeks0zfh36v69x4d3wmckg427safsh3w for the next release
How does Nostr handle videos? Video in general needs lots of hosting and bandwidth compared to text and pics..
slidestr.net is the bomb for that Instagram like feed.