We should have clear and simple a HTML website explaining step-by-step specifically how to set up a Nostr community/forum/chatroom and pointing to Flotilla, Chachi or whatnot. Who can make this?
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we need this yesterday
Unfortunately there is no such client to accommodate these small forums (that I know of). Only chatroom style clients / message groups telegram -style.
Nothing like a 'traditional' forum client like they were using:
We're bringing that :110percent: .
Without the ugliness 😉 .
Traditional forums were functional and worked great. They all got ruined by modern "design".
Name the elements that make it functional, por favor :prayinghands:
Also, name what we should definitely not do.
Make old school forums, but decentralized. That interface worked so well for small communities, before being destroyed by junk like reddit & discord & telegram. Look to any older phpBB style forums. They still exist and people still use them. They just aren't VC friendly, or a hot "design" trend.
SQUARE AVATARS
Forums and square avatars are ...dare I say it... Lindy. Lol
This is peak community tool UI:
Wow, OP's sorted by last active, threads ordered chronologically with *no sub-threading*, just quotes embedded in notes to continue conversations. Perfect.
> threads ordered chronologically with *no sub-threading*, just quotes embedded in notes to continue conversations
We'll be doing this by default on any reply sections (beyond level-1 replies).
Many think it's a technical thing, but it's ::90percent: just a UI choice.
The embedding quotes is the important part I think. That way one can be on page 42 and still get context without having to scroll forever and read 20 pages of unnecessary posts. It's nice to have a link to jump back though.
I agree! It's the best reply-thread UX (beyond level 1).
- Chronological
- Quotes for replies
HUGE AVATARS :wow:
GIVE ME SQUARES (rounded or not, squircles are meh) OR GIVE ME DEATH
If it needs to be more 'aesthetic' perhaps have a look at this forum which is still going (it probably has more daily active users than Nostr tbh lol)
All those 90° angles are beautiful.
I honestly wouldnt even change anything from this set up. And especially no discord-like UI.
What specifically is awful about Discord iyo?
(I strongly dislike it too to be clear)
It's far too confusing to use. I haven't used it in ages tbh so I can't pinpoint a specific part of it. I just couldn't be bothered learning how to use it.
Same :checkmarkgreen:
I dislike it being non paginated. Endless scrolling is a dark pattern. It's display & formatting of quotes is lacking as well.
Perfection.
Bring able to be simply themed was a nice feature of traditional forums too. Most modern replacements just all look the same from community to community. Communities should have personality.
Make Forums Great Again!
They never stopped being great:)
I was hoping Nostr would be this but it's just a Twitter clone.
I have a propaganda meme for that too lol
Are you me? 😂
My community software can, but it's far from perfect right now
Forum crawlers that publish your whole existing forum under proxy npubs.
You can even let community peeps "claim" those proxy npubs in the sense that you can forward stuff to their actual npub (zaps, notifications, ...).
Getting ahead of our/myself here, but we have options.
Agree 👍