If you have multiple versions of your follow list on different relays, you can now republish the one you want on Nosta. More here: https://primal.net/e/note1nytp4xafgff7cvpxu0uzye6j99m0fle23k8xuqrglah09hdt7qhsrre9nd

It may happen that there are different versions of your profile, follow list, or relay list are out there. On Nosta, you can now easily clean up by republish the version you prefer. Go to your profile, click the "...", then "View profile data".

There's a bunch of new functionality in Nosta right now and the code may not be 100% solid yet. Better to get it out a little early and iterate. Please share your feedback so we can fix things up pronto.

That is on the to-do list.

You can now follow others on Nosta profiles. Just press that "Follow" button. Or press "Following" if you don't want to follow them anymore. Up to you.

Heads up, this is new functionality with lots of new background logic. It may not work properly. But more testing is going to happen the next few days and it will solidify (fingers crossed).

There are some follow-up features planned. Like showing which people you and the person whose profile you're looking at have in common. But first, time to test and solidify. Your patience during this time is appreciated.

Stay magical.

What are you trying to do now. Is there a specific app you are trying to log in? With more context, I might be able to help better.

Do you remember seeing this screen?

It is called "private key" in Nosta. There is a dedicated step for it in the account creation flow. Did you copy it?

Yes, definitely. It's also helpful to let the project teams know about these things. The more information they have, the better they can address those problems.

We don't do anything particular to support search engines.

Generally, notes that are published on websites become indexable, just like any other content. Search engines just need a link structure they can follow to discover it.

Nosts also works with NIP-05s: https://nosta.me/karnage@zap.stream

We try to support all common ways to reference profiles.

The offchain.pub relay, one of your recommended relays, has outdated information. You can see this on your Nosta profile when clicking "..." and then "View profile data".

These things are a bit shaky overall, but getting better.

- Sometimes relays refuse connections and the client does not receive notes from them

- Some clients don't broadly push profile updates, resulting in multiple versions floating around

- Some clients have different ways of checking relays, resulting in different data sets

- Some services (like Primal) have caching systems, while others do not

Good thing is that nothing is fundamentally broken due to these inconsistencies. With more development and operation experience, these problems should fade away (fingers crossed).

So it looks like there are two subtly different versions of your profile data around. The latest one on the Primal relay does not have the lightning icon. There's one created just a split second earlier on the Snort relay that has the icon. No way to know how that came around.

Profile updates should really be blasted out across many (or all) relays instead of just one or a few, but many clients don't seem to do that.

When Nosta tries to connect to relays, they sometimes refuse. If that happens, and there are multiple versions of your profile floating around, you may see outdated information.

Sounds very problematic, but these things are improving continuously. We just need to have a little patience with Nostr for the time being.

Nosta now has tracking (GDPR compliant, no fingerprinting, no cookie banners), and the dashboard is public if you're curious. Reason is to get a rough sense for how it's being used (and if anyone even uses it) to improve the experience. https://eu.umami.is/share/Jmc84OrAe0BFvHB8/nosta.me

A nasty bug that sent you to a broken page when trying to access your profile should be fixed now. Reach out if you still encounter it.

What do you have in mind?

Seeing 80% reduction in bandwidth usage so far.

The site should load much snappier now due to an improvement on how image assets are being loaded. Let us know if you come across any issues.

We have an idea for a profile health check that would also point these things out and let you fix them with a click. Hopefully can get around to implementing that soon, it should be very helpful. https://github.com/GBKS/nosta-me/issues/35

We have a to-do for a "profile health check" that would point out these things and let you fix them with a click. Hopefully can get around to that soon, it should be very useful. https://github.com/GBKS/nosta-me/issues/35